Open Mind Quotes

"As an athlete, it's very important to have an open mind and to be willing to learn."

"I've learned not to say, 'No, I'd never do that.'"

"I just like music, bro. I listen to everyone."

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

Mark Twain

"The first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home."

Pico Iyer

"If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."

John Stuart Mill

"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."

Shunryu Suzuki

"If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change."

"As many faiths, so many paths."

Sri Ramakrishna

"I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

Malcolm Forbes

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”

“If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth.”

“I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.”

“I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else's shoes, and identify and reject false choices.”

“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”

“Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.”

“If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.”