Quotes About Narrowness

She was yet another proof to me that nothing limits a person more than what was then called "a clearly-defined world view.

In everything near and comprehensible he had seen only what was limited, petty, commonplace, and senseless. He

It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.

Psychologically, accidia manifests as a loss of interiority, a refusal to see, and a resistance to change. The combination of loss of interiority and the resigned and abnegated character that goes along with it, results in a syndrome of a good-hearted, comfortable "earthiness" that may be exaggerated to the point of literalness and narrowness.

I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

We hear a lot about Palestine now; it does not appeal to us. Anyone who goes there exchanges nationalism and narrowness for nationalism and narrowness.

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

We have a very narrow view of what is going on.

The experience of seeing how our thought and our words and our ideas have been confined by the limitation of our experience is one which is salutary and is in a certain sense good for a man's morals as well as good for his pleasure. It seems to us [scientists] that this is an opening up of the human spirit , avoiding its provincialism and narrowness.

In the musician, there is a tendency to have a narrowness. It's all compartmentalized. I am playing the violin; that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.

Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.

If we center our thoughts and activities on ourselves, our world grows increasingly narrow, and over time our view of reality is warped. Without realizing it, we become the measure of all things in our own minds.

My life felt narrower, and not my own. I gave up some of my life, that's the kind of thought I had, common to us who don't want to do what we feel obliged to do. A sacrifice.

Let them use at home economy where it is a virtue, but do not let them disgrace themselves abroad by narrowness....What a fool do I look like to be accoutered and stand here for 4 hours only to be spoken to by royalty.

The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

kimse taraf?ndan rahats?z edilmeden oturabilece?im kö?eler, bo? koridorlar arad?m. Küçücük dünyam daha da küçülmü?, zemindeki çatlaklara, duvarlardaki sarmal kabartmalara kadar daralm??t?. Parma??m?n ucunu üzerlerinde gezdirirken çatlaklar ve kabartmalar hafif f?s?lt?larla konu?uyordu.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.

E strâmt aici, dar ai unde s?-i pierzi min?ile. Nu e prea greu. - E chiar o nimica toat?.

But I am bored by Casanovas, inveterate travelers, nature lovers, and the drug-obsessed, as they speak from the narrowness of their exhaustive experience of one thing.

Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.