Todd Solondz Quotes

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.

Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

Keeping an open mind is always important.

No one ever died from an open mind.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

You've got to keep an open mind.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show the darkness but to put out our own eyes.

If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

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

Since opinions do not find in me a ready soil to thrust and spread their roots into, no premise shocks me, no belief hurts me, no matter how opposite to my own they may be.

I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.

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

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.

I'm very much a person of free thought.

People will assume what a record is going to be like and they are loath to even give it a listen.