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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.
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science
open-mindedness
willful-ignorance
ignorance
knowledge
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Charles Darwin |
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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open-mindedness
perspective
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George Eliot |
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Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
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wonder
narrow-mindedness
open-mindedness
growing-up
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Jodi Picoult |
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It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.
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close-mindedness
hypothesis
open-mindedness
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Milan Kundera |
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[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in.
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preconceptions
open-mindedness
self-discovery
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Alan Alda |
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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. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.
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reading
preconceptions
open-mindedness
expectations
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Virginia Woolf |
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The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.
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opportunity
life-long-learning
living-life
open-mindedness
innovation
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Steven Johnson |
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I'd always thought of myself as an open-minded person. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness. There's another kind, too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them. That's the part I still need to work on.
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maya-delaney
open-mindedness
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Kelley Armstrong |
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At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.
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science
truth
open-minded
counterintuitive
skeptical
scrutiny
open-mindedness
skepticism
ideas
nonsense
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Carl Sagan |
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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. His vision of his own village may really be full of varieties; and even his vision of his own nation may have a rough resemblance to the reality. But his vision of the world is probably smaller than the world...hence he is never so inadequate as when he is universal; he is never so limited as when he generalizes. This is the fallacy in the many modern attempts at a creedless creed, at something variously described as...undenominational religion or a world faith to embrace all the faiths in the world...When a philosophy embraces everything it generally squeezes everything, and squeezes it out of shape; when it digests it necessarily assimilates.
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nonsectarianism
open-mindedness
multiculturalism
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G.K. Chesterton |
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What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at the varied world the common thread, the unifying theme through immense diversity, a fearlessness of growth, of search, of looking, that enlarges the private and the public world. And yet, in our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins
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existence
courage
life
narrow-mindedness
open-mindedness
perspective
growth
society
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Alice Walker |
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The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).
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living
life
open-mindedness
word
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John Piper |
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The author relates the progress of inoculation against smallpox in America with the interaction between an African slave named Onisimus whose homeland knew how to treat the malady and and leading clergyman Cotton Mather who was curious and open-minded enough to listen to him.
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open-mindedness
society
humility
curiosity
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Robert J. Allison |