Quotes On: Open-mindedness

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.