Open-mindedness is important for personal growth allowing us to embrace diversity, creativity and new perspectives.
It involves challenging our assumptions and being receptive to various ideas and experiences fostering empathy, curiosity and the ability to navigate complex societal issues.
Open-minded individuals question their own and others’ beliefs listen actively and consider multiple possibilities moving beyond rigid viewpoints.
This approach requires effort to maintain an adaptive and growth-oriented perspective and a compilation of inspirational quotes can help broaden our understanding and acceptance of different ideas and opportunities.
Open Minded Quotes
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. ~ George Eliot.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them. ~ Edward R. Murrow.
Do not be afraid of limitless possibilities. The desert is infinite to the eye as love is to the heart. ~ Cathy Ostlere.
If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between ‘for’ and ‘against’ is the mind’s worst disease. ~ Jianzhi Sengchan.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Only limitless thinking and dreaming can manifest limitless abilities and success. ~ Tavi Castro.
An open heart is an open mind. ~ Dalai Lama.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. ~ Mark Twain.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ~ George Bernard Shaw.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. ~ Mark Twain.
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Inspirational Open Minded Quotes
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. ~ Robertson Davies.
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. ~ Haile Selassie
The optimist turns the impossible into the possible; the pessimist turns the possible into the impossible. ~ William Arthur Ward.
The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions. ~ Claude Levi-Strauss
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?” Marcus Aurelius
By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. ~ Richard Dawkins.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea. ~ Francis Bacon.
Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. ~ Chris Grosser.
You have to be very nimble and very open-minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. ~ Jeremy Stoppelman.
An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth. ~ Peter Kreeft.
An open mind isn’t the same thing as an empty head. ~ Hal Urban.
It is never too late to give up your prejudices. ~ Henry David Thoreau.
The highest form of is empathy. ~ Bill Bullard.
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Being Open Minded Quotes
An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart. ~ Robert M. Sapolsky.
I will not be famous, great. I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one’s self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded. ~ Virginia Woolf.
Be so busy improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others. ~ Chetan Bhagat
A great person has two hearts: one heart is bleeding, one heart is tolerant. ~ Gibran.
Open-minded people do not impose their beliefs on others. They just accept all of life’s perspectives and realities, doing their own thing in peace without judging anyone. ~ Steven Aitchison.
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. ~ Milan Kundera
Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart. ~ Byron Katie.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Keeping the mind open to new ideas, not being too anxious about success, putting 100% effort and meditation is the formula for entrepreneurs. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few. ~ Shunryu Suzuki.
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. ~ Walt Whitman.
Motivational Open Minded Quotes
The mind that opens up to a new idea never returns to its original size. ~ Albert Einstein.
In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. ~ Victoria Moran.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ~ James Thurber
True wisdom will enable man to judge other persons with an impartial mind. M. K. Soni
People are very open-minded about new things, as long as they’re exactly like the old ones. ~ Charles Kettering.
An open-minded person, who also knows how to relax and enjoy life, is therefore much more capable of problem solving and may amaze those around them. ~ Michelle Hunt
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. ~ Jorge Luis Borges.
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. ~ Isaac Asimov.
Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her can be a big comfort. ~ Roy T. Bennett
You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights. ~ Brian Tracy.
An open mind is prerequisite to an open heart. ~ Robert Sapolsky
An open mind is like an open window. It lets the fresh air in. ~ Mike Hernacki.
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. ~ Paracelsus.
Short Open Minded Quotes
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ~ Terry Pratchett.
That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today. Edward Kennedy.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. ~ Albert Einstein
Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we’ll all be happy. ~ Ian McKellen.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. ~ Isaac Asimov
If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you. ~ Bryant McGill.
Open your mind before your mouth. ~ Aristophanes.
An open mind is better than a clenched fist. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo.
It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change. ~ Mignon McLaughlin.
I don’t need other people to have an open mind for me to be happy. I’m the only one who needs an open mind. ~ Byron Katie.
The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive. ~ Alan W. Watts
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in. ~ Alan Alda.
Quotes about Open Minded
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. ~ Maya Angelou
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open. ~ Frank Zappa.
I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. ~Elon Musk.
Have an open mind – allow different ideas into your way of thinking. ~ Peter Diamandis
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. ~ Naguib Mahfouz
Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you’re not enjoying it, don’t do it. Life’s too short. ~ Debbie Meyer
Life is a journey with almost limitless possibilities. ~ Ken Poirot.
Ambiguity distracts the conscious mind. ~ Franz Anton Mesmer II.
Wise Open Minded Quotes
The greatest freedom is to be free of our own mind. ~ Osho.
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life. ~ Abraham Maslow.
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. ~ A.J. Darkholme
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ~ Albert Einstein
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. ~ Buddha Siddhartha.
Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress. ~ Dale Carnegie
Your story should open as a door to the reader, where the action has already begun and they have to run to keep up. ~ Davis Bunn.
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. ~ Margaret Mead.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. ~ Voltaire
An open-minded person sees life without boundaries, whereas a close-minded person can only see what’s beyond their eyes. ~ Kaoru Shinmon.
Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. ~ Lewis Carroll.
Imagination belongs to hope. It’s the creative dance of possibility. ~ Sharon Weil.
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. ~ David Ogilvy.
I hope these quotes about being open-minded will help you to broaden your horizon and look at the larger picture.
