Open Mindedness Quotes

180 quotes by 115 authors

Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity. — Will Rogers
One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're… — Criss Jami
Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.' — Criss Jami
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. — Erich Fromm
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. — Khalil Gibran
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. — Vincent Van Gogh
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. — Richard Dawkins
When nothing is sure, everything is possible. — Margaret Drabble
The most learned are often the most narrow minded. — William Hazlitt
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. — Christopher Hitchens
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to… — Margaret Mead
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. — Terry Pratchett
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. — Tony Robbins
Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace. — Salman Rushdie
Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. — Martha Stewart
If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and… — Brennan Manning
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates… — Philip Pullman
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Unknown Author
The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are not even sure… — John Ashbery
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. — Frank Zappa

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