Sal Khan Quotes

Be open-minded and available to everything and not just saying it's Jesus Christ or bust. So much of the world will do that. I find it troubling... Don't be dogmatic.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right

You need to be open and explore while heading where you want to go. You can never be too in love with your own ideas. If you can remember every idea that is yours in a script, as opposed to someone else's, then something is wrong.

I have learned to listen and to hone my instincts to be perceptive and be receptive to change, to constantly live in ambiguity.

I don't trust anyone who doesn't change their mind.

Are you going to get offended when someone says something that is counter to your worldview? I think you need to be willing to change your worldview or, at least, be open to other people's ideas.

The core hacker premise that 'code wins arguments' is just another way of saying that anything is worth trying, regardless of whether it is a conservative or liberal idea, and that whatever works is worth keeping.

I am always open to new ideas, but you can't always be right.

I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or wrong, or black or white, or whatever. To me, I'm still trying to figure out a lot of things.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

I believe in anything that works.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.

Let us try for once not to be right.

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

Persistence in one opinion has never been considered a merit in political leaders.

I learned over time that you do not go for the perfect solution….You do what is doable and then you want to try and do a little bit more.

The major problem for us in the 21st century is to be comfortable with ambiguity.