47 Quotes About Being Open Minded

There are various ways you can break up traditional thinking patterns and start to think outside the box. These quotes about being open minded will encourage you to take more risks.

“A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind.”

“A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion.”

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

“Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.”

“Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.”

“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.”

“An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy.”

“An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.”

“Beware: open-mindedness will often say, ‘Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.”

“But having quills is a waste, even a double luxury when one can choose not to have quills but open hands.”

“By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”

“By placing attention on what it is like to walk in another’s shoes, we step outside of ourselves and into a never-ending community.”

“Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”

“Every time you are convinced of something you close yourself off from any and all other possibilities. You have confined yourself to that box. At least do it with some conscious awareness of what that box is and make sure it’s something you want. ”

“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.”

“Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.”

“I can’t afford to say yes to all my staff’s desires, but one thing is certain – I can’t afford the outrageous cost of not listening to their requests.”

“I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.”

“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.”

“I would consider myself a perfectionist, yeah. I don’t think that is always that helpful, either. Sometimes it’s good to be a little more open-minded; you can overthink things when things are actually fine, and it’s that moment that you lose it. Looking back, sometimes I’ve made mistakes from being a perfectionist.”

“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.”

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”

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

“I’m too open minded that I don’t know what to mind anymore.”

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

“It is never too late to give up your prejudices.”

“It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”

“It’s a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret.”

“It’s not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.”

“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.”

“Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.”

“Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is, when we come to think of it, quite inevitable.”

“One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader’s need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.”

“Open your mind to the world and the many different ways that can be found in it, before making hasty judgments of others.”

“People are very open-minded about new things – as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.”

“Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing.”

“Stay diagnostic even as you take action.”

“Stay open-minded; stay focused. Train hard and train smart. For me, the older I get, the smarter I have to train also, because the recovery time is longer. Work on everything: become a well-rounded fighter – don’t just be good at one thing; be good at everything.”

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”

“The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts.”

“The problem with open-mindedness is that it can become empty-mindedness.”

“The thing is, it’s very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right.”

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.”

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“We have to replace our focus on personalities with a focus on ideas so that the opinionated and self-serving pronouncements and forms of cyber-bullying are replaced by thoughtful dialogue and open-minded conversation.”

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

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”

Having an open mind in life will allow you to find creative solutions to difficult problems.