Quotes About Open-mindedness

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

This alone I know, that I know nothing.

Socrates

Doubt is not a very agreeable state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Voltaire

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

William James

A triangle, if it could speak, would in like manner say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.

Baruch Spinoza

At the heart of science is an essential tension 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.

Carl Sagan

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

Will Durant

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Bertrand Russell