Quotes about Open-mindedness

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.

It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.

I always believe the best of every person, and I am very positive.

As long as we think we know everything, we do not know anything.

As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right,' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.

So the verse means, "Do not let the age in which you live force you into its scheme of thinking and behaving."

Acquaintance softens prejudice.