Open Mindedness Quotes

180 quotes by 115 authors

Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do? — Chuck Palahniuk
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. — Jodi Picoult
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. — Rainer Maria Rilke
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth,… — Marcus Aurelius
I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is… — Philip Pullman
Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can. — Haruki Murakami
Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values. — Dalai Lama
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that… — Virginia Woolf
No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's… — Paulo Coelho
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which… — Milan Kundera
Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble. — Paulo Coelho
I'd always thought of myself as an open-minded person. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion,… — Kelley Armstrong
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going… — Timothy Leary
There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes… — Napoleon Hill
We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly. — Mara Brock Akil
Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle… — Gordon W. Allport
I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God. — Eric Ludy
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. — E. M. Forster
An intelligent person is open-minded enough to thoughtfully consider an idea, even if they do not immediately agree with it. — Melchor Lim

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