embracing new perspectives Quotes

Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.

The only way to learn is by changing your mind.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.

He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.

Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

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.

Keep an open mind and be ready to change and adapt to the situation. Don't ask reality to conform to your blueprint, but transform your blueprint to adapt to reality.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.

The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.

I certainly don't want to have too many pre-conceived notions before I show up because then you might be cutting yourself off from the real lessons of what is going on.

Keep an open mind; it's the only way new things can get in.

When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an opening-up is the most practical of all activities.

Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.

It can be scary to find out you've been wrong about something but we can't be afraid to change our minds, to accept that things are different, that they'll never be the same, for better or for worse. We have to be willing to give up what we used to believe. The more we're willing to accept what is and not what we thought, we'll find ourselves exactly where we belong.

It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.