216 Quotes About Open-mindedness

Talk to people you don’t like. Share differing opinions. You don’t have to agree with everything a person is or does in order to be friends with them. You might be surprised. You might end up really liking someone you never thought you would like, just by giving them and yourself a chance. Don’t be so quick to write people off!

Don't let someone else's opinion influence your own observations

The author relates the progress of inoculation against smallpox in America with the interaction between an African slave named Onisimus whose homeland knew how to treat the malady and and leading clergyman Cotton Mather who was curious and open-minded enough to listen to him.

Don't be so quick to jump from conclusions.

Usually when you listen to some statement, you hear it as a kind of echo of yourself. You are actually listening to your own opinion. If it agrees with your opinion you may accept it, but if it does not, you will reject it or you may not even really hear it.

Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good life, perhaps because they suspected that it could not withstand exposure to more vigorous ideas.

Paradoxically, too much information can contribute to our becoming less aware, especially if that information is narrow and biased.

What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?

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