Quotes about Open-mindedness

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Teaching is not for a teacher simply to persuade students of his or her own perspective. Rather, the goal is to broaden students' minds by helping them empathetically understand a variety of perspectives while training them to think critically for themselves.

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

but let us judge not that we be not judged.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

It is next to impossible to hear the voice of wisdom if we are not really listening for it to begin with. The best counsel in the world is wasted counsel if our minds are already made up.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.