Quotes about Open-mindedness

To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

You never know what you might discover by thinking outside the box that culture, conformity, and critics have tried to impose.

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must learn and practice qualities and skills that you have never had before.

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.

In any case, we do not advance the human cause by refusing to consider ideas that make us frightened.

No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.