Quotes about Open-mindedness

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

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

I told him never to be afraid to come up with an idea or a hypothesis no matter how daft (his words not mine) it might seem.

Ignorance never settles a question.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous.

Teaching is not for a teacher simply to persuade students of his or her own perspective. Rather, the goal is to broaden students' minds by helping them empathetically understand a variety of perspectives while training them to think critically for themselves.

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.