Quotes about Open-mindedness

It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.

is more profitable to leave everyone to his way of thinking than to give way to contentious discourses.

Beware the man of a single book.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.

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

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy its glories.

The author says those who often claim to be tolerant are tolerant of those who agree with them — which is no one's definition of tolerance.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.