Quotes about Open-mindedness

We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues and thanked God that he was not like other men.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

DAVID GLASS: "Two things about Sam Walton distinguish him from almost everyone else I know. First, he gets up every day bound and determined to improve something. Second, he is less afraid of being wrong than anyone I've ever known. And once he sees he's wrong, he just shakes it off and heads in another direction.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try something.

The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.