Open Mindedness Quotes

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

Marcus Aurelius

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

Criss Jami

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

Heraclitus

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

Atle Selberg

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

John Piper

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

Malcolm X

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

George Eliot

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

Bodhidharma

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

Bodhidharma

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.

Albert Einstein

It is never too late to give up your prejudices

Henry David Thoreau

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

C.S. Lewis

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Albert Einstein