Terry Pratchett Quotes

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

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

When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.

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!

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

I think the open mind is the one that's reachable.

An open mind is prerequisite to an open heart.

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

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

I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind.

I think I have a threshold for taking things too seriously.

I feel like the world would be a better place if more people experienced a little bit of someone else's experience.

We, as a society, need to be open-minded.

Being stubborn is not an asset. You have to be able to see things through other people's eyes.

Every time you come across someone who looks like an outsider, the best way to go about it is to open your mind a little bit. You have to try to understand somebody who isn't like you.

We are all entitled to our own opinion.

I just want to be more willing to listen to many people and be cautious about what I'm doing.

There are funny gay people, and there are funny Indian people, and that's why we watch TV, to laugh. It only makes sense to include all types of funny people, whether or not they're gay or straight or what have you.

I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

I encourage people and their different points of view.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

People have different points of view and different opinions, and they struggle themselves with change.

I just hope to tell stories that help change people's minds about loving and accepting others. And one of the best ways we can do that is through laughter.