Best 145 quotes in «open mindedness quotes» category

We all like to think we’re open-minded and objective when it comes to evaluating situations and people. But are we? A huge body of research in physics, biochemistry, and psychology says we’re not.

We can’t expect others to abandon their values any more than we would forsake our own.

We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.

We need to start asking ourselves, does religion make people narrow minded or open minded?

We Destroy Because We Hate We Hate Because We Fear We Fear Because We Don’t Understand We Don’t Understand Because We Won’t Learn Illuminate your mind & Educate yourself!

What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?

What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at the varied world the common thread, the unifying theme through immense diversity, a fearlessness of growth, of search, of looking, that enlarges the private and the public world. And yet, in our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins

We must sense and confront our blockages and biases if we are to be open and grow.

Whenever I hear people clucking about the decline of civilization, what's wrong with young people, how vulgar popular culture is, how confusing and frightening they find the internet, alarms go off. I know I'm around somebody whose hinges are rusting. Death will be bad enough, but for me, this early harbinger is more fearsome, because a part of one's spirit and openness and ability to learn and grow disappears.

When one opens a book, one should also open one's mind.

When you read without an open mind, you're already filtering ideas and intended message. Selective reading contributes to wilful ignorance.

You can choose between having an open mind and being a skeptic. There is no in-between.

1. A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), recieved a university professor who came to inqure about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he could no longer restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!" "Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your up?

When the doors begin to close, the mind begins to open.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

A gentle reminder— just because you see something, just because you know something, does not mean everyone else does too. What’s more you could be wrong about whatever you think you see or know. Keep an open mind. Don’t rush to judgment. Cut people a bit of slack. Worry more about what you are doing than whatever everyone else is doing.

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.

A deep connection starts with interest, open-mindedness, & paying attention to every detail including flaws.

A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open...quiet mind

Always be respectful and open-minded when listening to another man's beliefs. What you reject today could be your mantra tomorrow. Man's evolution is all about transformations. An unexpected experience you have one day can change you forever.

A good listener is totally focused on the speaker with an open mind.

A mind that listens with complete attention will never look for a result because it is constantly unfolding; like a river, it is always in movement. Such a mind is totally unconscious of its own activity, in the sense that there is no perpetuation of a self, of a “me,” which is seeking to achieve an end.

All a hardliner has to do is to keep the door of his mind open! And then, the light will visit him! Only in light we can see the truths!

An open mind is as welcoming as an open door.

Are you open-minded? If not, leave the door open to it.

A self-taught person looks at the big picture with an open mind, they explore everything. They investigate themselves uncovering what is no longer taught, and experience supports it

An open mind is a traveled mind.

An open mind is better than a clenched fist.

An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded.

Anyone or anything can be a teacher given the right audience.

Awareness is not a school quiz that can be passed by reading and memorizing some facts. It’s a journey that is fueled by our intent to be open, honest, and free.

Be flexible and adapt easily to new things

[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.

Books and minds only work when they're open.

Being generous often consists of simply extending a hand. That's hard to do if you are grasping tightly to your righteousness, your belief system, your superiority, your assumptions about others, your definition of normal.

... But these skeptics are only selectively skeptical. They think themselves enlightened for resisting all this new proof and remaining steadfast in mistrusting anything that someone else says. But it is a false enlightenment to accept only those ideas that align with one's worldview and reject those that don't.

But why should he be open-minded when he thinks he’s right?

A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democratic Spirit's constituent rigor and humility and self-honesty are, in fact, so hard to maintain on certain issues that it's almost irresistibly tempting to fall in with some established dogmatic camp and to follow that camp's line on the issue and to let your position harden within the camp and become inflexible and to believe that he other camps are either evil or insane and to spend all your time and energy trying to shout over them.

But having quills is a waste, even a double luxury when one can choose not to have quills but open hands.

Can you keep an open mind? Are you willing to challenge what you know to be true?

Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions.

Could it be a metaphysical something, all too natural? Philosophical knowledge could lead to the spiritual? Scientifically proven of its limitless. Ether and celestial comes first then the physical but could it all lead to religion though? Regardless of it all, it's birthed from the psychological.

By placing attention on what it is like to walk in another’s shoes, we step outside of ourselves and into a never-ending community.

Don’t be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities

Don’t be too rigid, always be ready and eager to make new discoveries

Don't let someone else's opinion influence your own observations

Don’t limit yourself, discover new areas of expertise

Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff.

Don't waste today by talking about yesterday until it's finally tomorrow.

By staying open minded and listening to the needs and desires of your inner child, you open yourself up to the possibilities of anything and everything.