Quotes about Open-mindedness

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.

It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.

I always believe the best of every person, and I am very positive.

As long as we think we know everything, we do not know anything.

As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right,' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.

So the verse means, "Do not let the age in which you live force you into its scheme of thinking and behaving."

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

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

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.