Broadmindedness Quotes

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

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.

I have a very open mind. I believe that there's a spirit world. I believe that there's a lot of stuff out there that we don't know about, don't want to understand, and sometimes we don't want to understand it.

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

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

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of 'I', the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

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.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

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

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.

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.