Liberal Mind Quotes

To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the aloofness which cultivates insight. In learning to live with peoples and civilizations that have long ceased to be alive, we gain a vantage point, acquire an enlargement and elevation of thought, which enable us to study with a more impartial and liberal mind the condition of the society around us.

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.

To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.