Quotes about Open-mindedness

It is far too easy to be critical. It is far harder to have a better idea.

RULE 10, and it can be expressed thus: WHEN YOU DISAGREE, DO SO REASONABLY, AND NOT DISPUTATIOUSLY OR CONTENTIOUSLY.

If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest not.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. -John Wooden

The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

Think well of all, be patient with all, and try to find the good in all.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.