#minded

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#hatred #intolerance #narrow-mindedness #perception #persecution

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#healthy #might #own #reminded #strongest

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#simile #work

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#growing-up #narrow-mindedness #open-mindedness #wonder #kids

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #narrowmindedness #reading #self-deception #self-limiting-beliefs

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#heard #indeed #minded #mistresses #often

It is never too late to give up your prejudices ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#open-mindedness #diversity

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#new-ideas #open-mindedness #originality

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#prejudice #racism #small-mindedness #prejudice

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. ↗

— Mark Twain

#travel #prejudice