Amy Poehler Quotes

Let's cultivate an environment, not just in beauty pageants but in society in general, where we argue like we're right but listen like we're wrong.

I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.

You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with.

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

Do not force others, including children, by any means whatsoever, to adopt your views, whether by authority, threat, money, propaganda, or even education. However, through compassionate dialogue, help others renounce fanaticism and narrowness.

Brown’s core value of promoting the free and open exchange of ideas is bedrock to our capacity to fulfill our mission as a university. This value applies not only when ideas are agreeable and aligned with our own. Protecting the right to free expression and promoting open discourse is even more essential when ideas are divergent, abhorrent or even hurtful.

By isolating ourselves from those with whose opinions we disagree, we lose the ability to defend our beliefs.

A critical component of progress is engaging with people you don't agree with - everything else is the status quo.

One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.

I think it is important to speak your mind. Tolerance of the ignorance sends the wrong message to kids.

I've come to terms with the fact that standing and screaming in someone's face about how wrong they are is never gonna make anyone change.

I just want to say what I think and encourage others to say what they think.

We must have real debates where disagreements exist, listen to each other, not shy away from ideas different from our own and treat people with respect.

I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.