Open Mindedness Quotes

The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Go forward in your beliefs and teachings, educate the open-minded and be humble to the ones who aren’t.

~ Lauren Lola

...sometimes when you are lost for direction, you are open to a new way of seeing.

~ Lauren Lola

The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose;Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear.Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set

~ Sengcan

I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.

~ Criss Jami

God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool kids and never for those upright and uptight religious people everybody hates.

~ Criss Jami

Ignorance shuts the mind’s door tight, wisdom swings it wide open.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. He has no awares of himself or of others as private subjectives, nor does he suspect that all of us, himself included, are limited to one certain point of view of the world. That is why he subjects neither his thoughts, in which he believes as they present themselves, to any sort of criticism. He has no knowledge of points of view. For him men are empty heads turned towards one single, self-evident world where everything takes place, even dreams, which are, he thinks, in his room, and even thinking, since it is not distinct from words.

~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The author relates the progress of inoculation against smallpox in America with the interaction between an African slave named Onisimus whose homeland knew how to treat the malady and and leading clergyman Cotton Mather who was curious and open-minded enough to listen to him.

~ Robert J. Allison

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

~ Unarine Ramaru

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.

~ Eric Hirzel

People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant and don’t matter. They are not going to understand you, or even see the point of why God had you hang in there with them for so long. Remember this: Sometimes meeting someone has nothing to do with what you can provide for him or her and everything to do with what God needs you to recognize in that person. If you didn’t understand the message, God will keep sending the same person or situation into your life.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ John Piper

I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Past experience doesn't go away, so the secret is to accept, embrace and learn from it. However the key to the secret, is to keep it at bay and be open minded about the future from the second after the experience and never let the experience be the bar or commission of anything thereafter.

~ Unarine Ramaru

The one thing that I want every single child to have experienced at some point in their life, as part of their education, is to have some idea they hold to be true, and at the very basis of their being, proved to be wrong.Because that opens your mind to the realization that the world is different than you thought it would be, and you have to begin to open your mind to the possibilities of existence.And opening your mind frees you, it doesn't constrain you. It makes the world more wonderful, more exciting, and more worth living in.

~ Lawrence M. Krauss

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

~ Baltasar Gracián

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let us not despise the woman who is neither mother nor daughter nor wife. Let us not limit our esteem to family life, narrow our tolerance to simple egotism. Given that heaven rejoices more at the repentance of one sinner than over a hundred good men who have never sinned, let us endeavor to make heaven rejoice. We may be rewarded with interest. Let us leave along the path the alms of our forgiveness for those whose earthly desires have marooned them, so that a divine hope may save them, and, as the wise old women say when they prescribe a remedy of their own invention, if it doesn't help, at least it can't hurt.

~ Alexandre Dumas Fils

To reach the high notes in life, you must open your heart to sing.

~ Caron Kamps Widden

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

~ Laurence Overmire

People who don’t know how to use their minds can’t really know how to use their hearts either.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing knowledge over kindness and compassion.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

~ Mark Twain

Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.

~ C. Joybell C.

Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a torture to talk to filled heads, that allow nothing from the outside to enter them! A good mind, in order to enjoy itself and allow itself to enjoy others, always keeps itself larger than its own thoughts. And in order to do this, these thoughts must be given a pliant form, must be easily folded and unfolded, so that they are capable, finally, of maintaining a natural flexibility.All those short-sighted minds see clearly within their little ideas and see nothing in those of others; they are like those bad eyes that see from close range what is obscure and cannot perceive what is clear from afar. Night minds, minds of darkness.

~ Joseph Joubert

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

~ Tim Fargo

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.

~ Peter Høeg

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

~ André Maurois

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.

~ Jon Katz

If you really have an open mind, you would surely discover that every race has some good and bad people in it. Therefore, it would be very unwise to condemn an entire race just because you encountered some negative minded individuals from it.

~ Hafiz

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

~ Unarine Ramaru

I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child's views should be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experiences.

~ Sherrie Eldridge

The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life's changes but also to the Divine Light within us and others.

~ Peter Santos

That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit.

~ Edna Ferber

The problem will never be diversity, the challenging of tradition or the one person that questions the way life should be. The person that shows the world that this is wrong, there is a perspective you didn't consider, this is worth fighting for and being different is a blessing, will always be the solution for change.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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.

~ Suzy Kassem

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.

~ David Foster Wallace

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

~ George Eliot