Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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 know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.

Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience.

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.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Examine other points of view as if they were your own.

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

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.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

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

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

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.

To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas.

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

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

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

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!

Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what's happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time.

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.