The most distinctive mark of a cultured mind
is the ability to take another's point of view;
to put one's self in another's place,
and see life and its problems from a point of view different from one's own.
To be willing to test a new idea; to be able to live on the edge of difference
in all matters intellectually;
to examine without heat the burning question of the day;
to have imaginative sympathy, openness and flexibility of mind,
steadiness and poise of feeling, cool calmness of judgment,
is to have culture.

A. H. R. Fairchild