Quotes About Narrowness

There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

Mange menneskers liv er kun henvisninger til det mulige. Trangen forbliver symbolsk, trykket reelt. Tryk avler angst, og angst indsnævrer livet. Det indo-europæiske ord 'angh' betyder snæver. Angst er snæverhed, som vi lader os trykke ned af.

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and by the consistent narrowness of his outlook. But I have never been able to love what was not lovable or hate what was not hateful out of deference for some general principle. Whether there be any courage in making this admission I know not.

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

In this little room, tonight, every night, there is so much misery, so much despair, that the walls seem almost too narrow to contain it. … Yet outside there are happy people who sleep the sleep of the so-called just and righteous. When they wake it will be to persecute those who, through no fault of their own, have been set apart from the day of their birth, deprived of all sympathy, all understanding. They are thoughtless, these happy people who sleep.

But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

Consistency is the defense of a small mind

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

You fail to see the endless sky when you have a tunnel vision

A las mentes obtusas solo se les ocurren mezquindades».

The incessant concentration of thought upon one subject, however interesting, tethers a man's mind in a narrow field.

Tradi?iile nu câ?tig? nimic când sunt prea bine explicate. Ele nu pot decât s?-?i piard? din rigoare ?i îngustimea înc?p??ânat? care le dau o parte de frumuse?e.

People are beset with great trouble because they define their lives so narrowly.

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower.

neurosis as a problem of character and have seen that it can be approached in two ways: as a problem of too much narrowness toward the world or of too much openness.