216 Quotes About Open-mindedness

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji)

A gentle reminder— just because you see something, just because you know something, does not mean everyone else does too. What’s more you could be wrong about whatever you think you see or know. Keep an open mind. Don’t rush to judgment. Cut people a bit of slack. Worry more about what you are doing than whatever everyone else is doing.

Exploring new options in materials and new ways of thinking keeps systems moving forward, developing new solutions. Limiting ourselves to a select few options is very toxic.

Anyone or anything can be a teacher given the right audience.

By placing attention on what it is like to walk in another’s shoes, we step outside of ourselves and into a never-ending community.

I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference.

It's not enough to open your eyes. You must open your heart as well.

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, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

In order to be good, one needs to be virtuous, not "nice". In order to be true, one needs to be honest, not "authentic". In order to be wise, one needs to be discriminating, not "open-minded". And in order to be civilized, one needs to be principled, not "sophisticated".