Quotes about Open-mindedness

it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself

Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgement.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it.

And she was always cold toward bats, too, and could not bear them; and yet I think a bat is as friendly a bird as there is.

As you succeed in overcoming self you will begin to see things in their right relations. He who is swayed by any passion, prejudice, like or dislike, adjusts everything to that particular bias, and sees only his own delusions. He who is absolutely free from all passion, prejudice, preference, and partiality, sees himself as he is; sees others as they are; sees all things in their proper proportions and right relations.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.