Open Mindedness Quotes

Most popular open-mindedness quotes

Never forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong. - John Perry Barlow quote.
Never forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong.
A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs proverbs

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open mind. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open mind.

education

The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment. - Timothy Leary quote.
The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.

drugs

Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind. - Charlie Munger quote.
Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind.

beliefs flexible thinking

The challenge of creative beings is to be suspicious of every discourse, thought, affirmation, or proposal that presents itself as "the only possible path." There are always others. There is always another possibility. - Pope Francis quote.
The challenge of creative beings is to be suspicious of every discourse, thought, affirmation, or proposal that presents itself as "the only possible path." There are always others. There is always another possibility.
Pope Francis Annual Message to Educational Communities, Easter 2002

creativity

The greatest leaders in God's tribe have been those men who have left room for doubt. - Pope Francis quote.
The greatest leaders in God's tribe have been those men who have left room for doubt.

doubt

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. - William Blake quote.
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

opinions

An open mind collects more riches than an open purse.
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
— Graffiti

freedom ideas

Often it is our own knowledge that is the biggest obstacle to us touching suchness [reality]. That is why it's very important to learn how to release our own views. Knowledge is the obstacle to knowledge. If you are dogmatic in your way of thinking, it is very difficult to receive new insights, to conceive of new theories and understandings about the world. - Thích Nhất Hạnh quote.
Often it is our own knowledge that is the biggest obstacle to us touching suchness [reality]. That is why it's very important to learn how to release our own views. Knowledge is the obstacle to knowledge. If you are dogmatic in your way of thinking, it is very difficult to receive new insights, to conceive of new theories and understandings about the world.

knowledge buddhist

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them. - Thích Nhất Hạnh quote.
For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

buddhist

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality. - Thích Nhất Hạnh quote.
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

buddhist

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. - Salman Rushdie quote.
The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

freedom ideas

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. - Charles F. Kettering quote.
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

mind

Ah, snug lies those that slumber
Beneath Conviction's roof.
 Their floors are sturdy lumber,
Their windows weatherproof.
But I sleep cold forever
And cold sleep all my kind,
For I was born to shiver
In the draft of an open mind. - Phyllis McGinley quote.
Ah, snug lies those that slumber
Beneath Conviction's roof.
 Their floors are sturdy lumber,
Their windows weatherproof.
But I sleep cold forever
And cold sleep all my kind,
For I was born to shiver
In the draft of an open mind.
When we are closed to ideas what we hear is criticism. When we are open to ideas what we get is advice.