Narrow-minded Quotes

• It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mistake, Artist, Prudent

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Wicked Person, Envy, Gossip

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.176, Sophia Institute Press

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• The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Tolerance, Action, Open Minded

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• The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Ignorance

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• Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Brother, Exercise, Men

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

  William Hazlitt

  Prejudice, Open Mindedness

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.118

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• If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book VI, Chapter 21), circa 170.

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• One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.

  Mort Sahl

  Lonely, One Thing

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2011

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• Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Change, Should Have, Progress

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3719, Delphi Classics

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• You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets.

  Glen Campbell

  Kindness, Light, People

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• A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

  James D. Watson

  Stupid, Science, Numbers

  James D. Watson (2011). “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.

  Molly Ivins

  Sarcastic, Eye, Keyholes

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• Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Mind, Mystery

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• One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

  James D. Watson

  Success, Mother, Truth

  James D. Watson (2011). “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Stupid, Successful, Science

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• A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Entrepreneur, Mind

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• It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Mean, Conceited

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.101, Chartwell

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• The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of 'I', the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Small Problems, Self

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• The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Civilization, Voice, Individuality

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• A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

  Will Rogers

  Political, Politics, Open Minded

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

  Charles Kettering

  Change, New Beginnings, Long

  Attributed to Charles Kettering in Ben Reed "Future Technology in Law Enforcement" (p. 15), 2009.

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• Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.

  Mike Epps

  Thinking, People, Personality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Fun, Adventure

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

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• The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

  Lin Yutang

  Belief, Justify

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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