Brad Paisley Quotes

As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.

Travel teaches tolerance.

I can empathise with different cultural expressions and am open to things that seem strange at first sight.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

The more places I go to, the more I realize I understand so little about the world.

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

The people with the passports, the people who travel more, tend to be the most understanding. And it's ironic that the people who travel the least have the strongest opinions about the people they've never met.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Tolerance is an acquired taste. It is not innate. You build tolerance.

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.

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

I think that's important: to know 'the other,' as a means of coming to understanding.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

If you don't open your eyes to other people's lives, you can't even begin to understand how the world works at all.

I would say get to know somebody who isn't exactly like you and doesn't come from the same background as you, educate yourself and then just keep showing up. Finding ways to show up for people and your voice will come out of that relationship and out of your pursuit to seeing people who aren't exactly like you.