Quotes about Open-mindedness
Once, at the end of a field trip to the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam, the imam ended his meeting with students by saying, 'Our deepest desire is not that you become Muslim, but that you become the best Christian, the best Jew, the best person you can be. In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Thank you for coming.' Then he was gone, leaving me with a fresh case of holy envy.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
This is one of the reasons why I remain a devoted student of the Bible: because what it says is so often not what I have been taught it says, or what I think it says, or what I want it to say.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The problem was that I could not teach other people's religions without loving them as I loved my own, or at least giving it my best shot.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It is far too easy to be critical. It is far harder to have a better idea.
— Scot McKnight
Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.
— Marianne Williamson
When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.
— Anais Nin
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
— Mark Twain
Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I told him never to be afraid to come up with an idea or a hypothesis no matter how daft (his words not mine) it might seem.
— Stephen Hawking
Ignorance never settles a question.
— Benjamin Disraeli