Quotes about Open-mindedness
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
— St. Augustine
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
— St. Augustine
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
— Samuel Johnson
I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.
— Donald Miller
I resist all temptation today to judge how I think others should behave. I cannot know the deeper forces at work within anyone's heart. My deliverance comes from accepting all people, not judging or controlling them.
— Marianne Williamson
Chesterton is quoted as saying, "When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything.
— Mark Driscoll
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.
— George Eliot
It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.
— Henry David Thoreau
scientific discovery requires the boldness of provisional commitment to a point of view, while remaining aware that this may require subsequent modification in the light of further experience.
— John Polkinghorne
Think and let think.
— John Wesley
1. When trying to understand another religion, you should ask the adherents of the religion and not its enemies. 2. Don't compare your best to their worst. 3. Leave room for holy envy. (Krister Stendahl's rules of religious understanding)
— Barbara Brown Taylor
One of the quietest revolutions in Religion 101 follows a student's recognition that he or she has a worldview, a particular way of viewing reality that it is not the only way. A worldview is a wave, but not the entire ocean.
— Barbara Brown Taylor