Walter Gropius Quotes

I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

I will never have a problem working with anybody. I will even work with a man if he dresses up like a woman, because it's my job. I am here to act.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.

The committee will be composed of open-minded people who agree with me.

He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.

Our culture has valued closed systems and tries to generate them in all walks of life. Women are better at and more comfortable with open systems, which occur naturally in nature.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

As long as you have balance, you can experience all of the things going on in the world and reach out and meet people and try new things, and you shouldn't be judged for it.

I don't marry myself to one belief system.

I think you always, with anything, need to have different viewpoints.

Right-wing, pivot, centre-back, full-back, right, left. I've never felt uncomfortable anywhere.

Young people - and skaters - are very, very open-minded.

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.

Growing up, my dad was the ultimate person for open-mindedness.

I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.