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It is increasingly important to be open-minded. -- Tucker Carlson
Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. -- Martha Stewart
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -- Richard Dawkins
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. -- Mark Twain
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. -- Tony Robbins
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. -- Frank Zappa
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. -- Francis Bacon
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. -- Jodi Picoult
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. -- Vincent Van Gogh
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements. -- Thomas Cochrane
The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief. -- Napoleon Hill
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. -- Margaret Mead
LSD wanted to tell me something.... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation. -- Albert Hofmann
I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth. -- Philip Pullman
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth. -- Milan Kundera
There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. -- Napoleon Hill
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
An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decisions he can in the face of uncertainty and doubt". -- Derek Bok
One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it's worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling. -- Jeannette Walls
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, can't terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. -- John Dewey
I'd always thought of myself as an open-minded person. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness. There's another kind, too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them. That's the part I still need to work on. -- Kelley Armstrong
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. -- Virginia Woolf
I'm very open-minded. -- Gabrielle Reece
You know, people aren't always the most open-minded. -- Miguel
Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded. -- David Bailey
I've always embraced everything and been open-minded about what's ahead. -- Donna Air
African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded. -- Jill Scott
Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace. -- Salman Rushdie
In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded. -- Bong Joon-ho
I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters. -- Jason Reitman
I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God. -- Eric Ludy
Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance. -- Maajid Nawaz
I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that. -- James Denton
We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions. -- Harri Holkeri
The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system. -- Rupert Sheldrake
I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things. -- Marilyn Manson
Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say. -- A. J. McLean
I work in both very strict conditions and very loose, more open-minded conditions in advertising, and Nike is by far the most open-minded of all. -- Casey Neistat
Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye. -- William Wordsworth
Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion. -- Criss Jami
The most important quality for a judge is open- mindedness to the arguments. -- Samuel Alito
Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.' -- Criss Jami
Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important. -- Eraldo Banovac
All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness. -- Ezra Koenig
To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants. -- Criss Jami
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. -- Christopher Hitchens
We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly. -- Mara Brock Akil
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess -- Margaret Mead
Seeking social equality for disabilities doesn't come from bullying or militancy, seeking social equality for disabilities comes is from realising the open-mindedness and acknowledgement of each person's reality -- Paul Isaacs
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence. -- Philip Pullman
Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor the players liked the finale, which I also think rather horrible. -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others. -- Vinod Khosla

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