Quotes about Open-mindedness
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.
— Phillips Brooks
Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
— Charles Kettering
A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.
— George H. W. Bush
A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
— Oswald Chambers
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.
— Mark Twain
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
— Henry David Thoreau
God is liberal of color; so should man be.
— Herman Melville
Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
— Walt Disney
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
— Thomas Jefferson
The more learned a man is the less consideration he has for another man's belief.
— Will Rogers