Haile Selassie
Emperor
"If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself."
Open Minded quotes
Open Minded
57 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
John Wayne
Actor, Director
"Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out."
Groucho Marx
Actor, Comedian, Writer
"Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out."
Heraclitus
Philosopher
"Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire."
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"I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me."
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"We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things."
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"Let yourself be open and life will be easier."
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"One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going."
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"If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment."
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"Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
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"Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded."
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