42 Inspiring Quotes about
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
(Aristotle)
Willingness to listen to and fairly consider ideas, suggestions and opinions that are new or that differ from your own
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
(Robert Heinlein)
A truly open mind means forcing our imagination to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.
(Lawrence M. Krauss)
Open your mind before your mouth.
(Aristophanes)
The day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.
(A.J. Darkholme)
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
(George Eliot)
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
(John Maynard Keynes)
An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought into it.
(Mark Twain)
When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening.
(Glennon Doyle Melton)
Open-minded people don’t care to be right, they care to understand.
(Anonymous)
When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening.
(Glennon Doyle Melton)
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
(Frank Zappa)
A closed mind is a dying mind.
(Edna Ferber)
The wise judge the message, not the speaker.
(Scott Anderson)
People are very open-minded about new things – as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.
(Charles Kettering)
Rather than knowing more, I think I’ve got more open-minded.
(David Bailey)
If you are open-minded and you let the universe come in, you never know where things might go.
(Adam Neumann)
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
(George Bernard Shaw)
It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
(Henry David Thoreau)
By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
(Richard Dawkins)
Beware: open-mindedness will often say, ‘Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.”
(Criss Jami)
The problem with open-mindedness is that it can become empty-mindedness.
(Christopher Hitchens)
Stay diagnostic even as you take action.
(Ronald Heifetz)
Now that you are willing to understand, you have taken the first step to understand.
(Bram Stoker)
Anyone or anything can be a teacher given the right audience.
(Akiroq Brost)
I suppose no one ever thinks they’re close-minded.
(Sylvain Neuvel)
What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?
(Joyce Rachelle)
An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.
(Virginia Hutchison)
If you don’t go through life with an open mind, you will find a lot of closed doors.
(Mark W. Perrett)
The closed mind is a disease.
(Danny Wallace)
The open mind is the key to the open heart.
(Byron Katie)
An open mind is better than a clenched fist.
(Matshona Dhliwayo)
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
(Albert Einstein)
If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.
(Bryant McGill)
No one ever died from an open mind.
(Jillian Michaels)
Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.
(Napoleon Hill)
Stay open-minded. Things aren’t always what they seem to be.
(Scottie Waves)
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.
(Mark Twain)
One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.
(Isaac Asimov)
It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make.
(Ashly Lornezana)
If you’re too open-minded, your brains will fall out.
(Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
