Quotes About Narrowness

To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I can't believe the narrowness that has been attributed to God in terms of what he would approve and disapprove.

But a person can believe something so hard they lose sight of everything else.

How narrow he makes the street look!" a passer-by once exclaimed.

vista no wider than their own sunbonnets.

You have brought your own ideas with you into the gaol,' Miss Haxby said, after a moment. 'But our ways at Millbank—as you can see—are rather narrow ones.

One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically "niche" show is that you spend too much time on the "niche" and not enough time on the "show."

but good-hearted and companionable, obedient to their parents and the priest; and as they grew up they became properly stocked with narrowness and prejudices got at second hand from their elders, and adopted without reserve; and without examination also—which goes without saying. Their religion was inherited, their politics the same. John Huss and his sort might find fault with

An alleyway is a disappointed road, waiting for someone to widen it.

the way coupling is envisioned in contemporary American society is not universal, it is not timeless, and it is not human nature. Instead, the reigning American worldview may well represent one of the narrowest construals of intimacy ever imagined. Where once the tendrils of love and affection reached out to family, friends, and community, reached back to ancestors, and reached up to the heavens, now they surround and squeeze just one other person—sometimes to the point of asphyxiation.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

We move through the world in a narrow groove, preoccupied with the petty things we see and hear, brooding over our prejudices, passing by the joys of life without even knowing that we have missed anything. Never for a moment do we taste the heady wine of freedom. We are as truly imprisoned as if we lay at the bottom of a dungeon, heaped with chains.

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.

Once again, I had made my world a very small place, and I didn't want to live there.

It is only when we are blinded by a narrow conceptual view of the world that life can seem meaningless.

Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.

I found that tunnel vision, which an academic career simply requires, horrible.

Monomaniacs of any kind, those people fixated by a single idea, have been a source of fascination for me my whole life, for the more a man limits his field of vision, the closer he is, conversely, to the infinite; those very people who seem so remote from the world construct with their own unique material, termite-like, a remarkable and completely unique shorthand for the world itself.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Living in bondage, I have set myself free: I have broken away from the clutch of all narrowness.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fair mindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan.

By now I had learned enough about the narrowness of a woman's choices to guess that they were not all harlots, only less lucky than I had been.

little bigotty kind of people.

The smaller the world one lives in, the deeper and stronger their hatred can grow. It is like water poured into a dish.