Quotes about Open-mindedness
Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.
— Dale Carnegie
Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.
— Pema Chodron
Those Christians who resist the inclination toward fundamentalism and who follow the nature, actions, and words of Jesus Christ should consider people who are different from us to be worthy of our care, generosity, forgiveness, compassion, and unselfish love.
— Jimmy Carter
be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I've yet to meet someone who found their way to faith by being criticized.
— Philip Yancey
As a Christian, my main concern is not to downgrade others' beliefs but to examine my own.
— Philip Yancey
It takes no grace to relate to someone who looks, thinks, and acts just like me.
— Philip Yancey
For us to close our mind to scientific reasoning without using our best critical thinking is to refuse to use our God-given capacity for understanding.
— Dan Boone
I grew up with absolutely no religion at all, and it was probably one of the best things that happened to me. I didn't have to unlearn anything.
— Louise Hay
The best ideas are common property.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
— John Maxwell
To be effective, leaders must always be learners. You can never arrive - you can only strive to get better.
— John Maxwell