Lisa Joy Quotes

It's become easy for Americans to live in a cocoon of monolithic ideology and thought. It's time to embrace diversity of thought and diversity of experience.

I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

Everyone is entitled to our opinion.

The idea that everyone's opinion is valuable is sometimes up for question.

I don't like people who don't have opinions.

I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.

If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.

It is the business of culture to make us able to consider with intelligent interest all real opinions, even those we do not and can not accept.

We need the self-confidence to admit that at best we possess only a partial understanding of the truth, which can be enlarged by refining our views in light of new arguments, new circumstances and new insights. But this requires us to listen to others, to weigh their arguments with care, and maybe even to learn from them.

A certain degree of intellectual humility is a good thing.

Just because someone or something thinks differently than you do, it doesn't mean that it's not thinking.

College is an environment designed to encourage openness - the ability to think of things in novel ways and entertain unconventional beliefs.

I often go into the lions' den and engage with those I know oppose my views, because I want to understand what other people think.

Of all forms of diversity that should be celebrated on university campuses, none is more important than supporting, nurturing, and promoting intellectual diversity.

I think I've always had that orientation to try to understand the humanity behind people with whom I disagree.

Instead of silencing speakers on campus, perhaps do what you're supposed to in college instead: listen to someone who thinks differently than you do.

One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.

If I could tell every Trump supporter two things, it would be to travel and read a history book. Look beyond yourselves; look at how petty the morals you uphold seem when you realize we are not the only ones.

If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.

Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', "I CAN handle the truth.

I think it's important to view the issues on the broadest possible reference plane. In fact, if you firmly believe in any issue, I urge you to read the opposite of it. Most of the time, it'll merely reinforce your original beliefs, but on the rare occasion, it might change your mind.

I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.