Broadmindedness Quotes

• 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.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Ideas, Ethics, Virtue

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Mean, Hatred, Tolerance

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.502, Image

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• 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.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Tolerance, Action, Open Minded

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

  Martha Stewart

  Success, Double Minded, Open Minded

  "Martha Stewart: I Asked Her Nothing; She Tells Me Everything". Interview with Lauren Cahn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2014.

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• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Small Problems, Self

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

  Robert Frost

  Men, Political, Tolerance

  "The Geography of the Imagination". Book by Guy Davenport, 1981.

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• 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.

  Tom Hanks

  Optimistic, Optimism, Tolerance

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

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Fall, Thinking, Tolerance

  "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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• It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

  Tucker Carlson

  Tolerance, Important, Open Minded

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Sarcastic, Giving, Funny Political

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

  E. B. White

  People, Childhood, Tolerance

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

  James Joyce

  Tolerance, Admire, Magnificent

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

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Lazy, Sloth

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Clea DuVall

  Tired, Tolerance, Mind

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• 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.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Inspiration, Tolerance

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• 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.

  Anthony Head

  Believe, Thinking, Tolerance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Brandi Chastain

  Hard Work, Thinking, Practice

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

  Paracelsus

  Art, Healing, Mind

  Seven Defenses Ch. 4

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

  Indra Devi

  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

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

  Thomas Cochrane

  Respect, Order, Tolerance

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

  Zahi Hawass

  Past, Thinking, Ideas

  Zahi Hawass (2015). “Magic of the Pyramids: My adventures in Archeology”, p.28, Leonardo Paolo Lovari

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Brotherhood, Church, Doe

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