Best Open Minded Quotes

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Never say no to an idea – you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don’t like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

If the music has a logic of its own – as I think my music has – an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

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.

My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

There’s this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.

The student’s job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.

My open mindedness is a product of where I came from. When you work in labor relations for a long part of your career you have to embrace the idea that an exchange of ideas can produce creative solutions.

One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people’s religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.

The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing…. Many of the high-quality sighting reports involve certain objective aspects, which, to an open-minded bystander, are quite impressive.

Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.

I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

An artist’s duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

I’m someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Rather than knowing more, I think I’ve got more open-minded.

The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.

I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that. We argued about it all the time, but it was good-natured. He was the most open-minded human being I’ve ever known.

I really wanted to raise my boys in a place where ‘celebrity’ wasn’t important, and where I could be closer to where I grew up (upstate NY). I love it here – it reminds me of my childhood. It seems more open minded and inclusive, and I love the seasons.

It’s very dangerous to pretend to be open-minded when you’re the exact opposite. I think feminists are only making it worse by blocking out all other viewpoints but their own, only reading their own propaganda and only associating with each other.

Never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing. If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you were comfortable with earlier in your life, you will grow increasingly frustrated with your surroundings as you age.

I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.