Don’t get me wrong, being open-minded is GREAT, but it’s not the end goal. 🎯
The end goal is the discovery of truth.
From What It Means to Keep an Open Mind by author and speaker, Matt D’Antuono:
“One of the most helpful examples of proper open-mindedness is the philosophy of the Middle Ages, and St. Thomas Aquinas in particular. He quotes freely from pagan, Jewish, Muslim and Christian sources. He clearly took the time to thoroughly examine and understand these other thinkers because truth is truth no matter where it comes from. At the same time, he subjected all of those thoughts to relentless rational analysis. Thomas Aquinas was certainly a man with a proper amount of open-mindedness.Examples of minds that did not stay open long enough are the modern philosophers, beginning with Descartes. In general, they threw out all the thinkers before them because they either misunderstood or ignored them. Unfortunately, it is not possible to find among the modern philosophers a rigorous understanding of the thinkers who went before them. If the thinkers of the Middle Ages prided themselves on being dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants, the modern era thinkers prided themselves on being giant-slayers so they could retain their diminutive height.
The important thing, then, is to keep an open mind for the right amount of time. If one keeps an open mind indefinitely, then he refuses to use his mind and so loses it. That is when the brains fall out. If the mind is not opened at all, it becomes cramped and mean from lack of nutrition. So, keep an open mind, and shut it when necessary.”
Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G.K. Chesterton
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