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Quotes About Narrow-minded

Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.
~ Geoff Dyer
I, who am not afraid of death, was afraid of the shouting of this dull, narrow-minded clod, petrified with professional conceit.
~ A. I. Kuprin
When a fortress is besieged from all sides, there is nothing narrow-minded about guarding it with one's life, sealing every pathway, every door and window, even the tiniest aperture.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I think it's pretty stupid to write off an entire genre of anything. It's one thing to say 'I don't like country music.' But it's pretty narrow minded to say 'All country music sucks.' Of course, that being said, all short-form improv sucks.
~ Matt Besser
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
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
How great in number are the little minded men
~ Plautus
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
~ Winston Churchill
I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things happen once in a while. Unfortunately, one of the casualties was Taur Urgas' oldest son. The king of the Murgos took it personally. He's very narrow-minded sometimes. - Silk
~ David Eddings
These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.
~ Jane Russell
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
~ Winston Churchill
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
~ Bob Brown
There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.
~ Tony Blair
My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
~ zafon carlos ruiz iii
she had no use for men who were so narrow-minded they could look through a keyhole with both eyes at the same time.
~ Deeanne Gist
Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Small minded people rarely have any ideas, just a litany of complaints.
~ RJ Intindola
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
As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.
~ Isidor Isaac Rabi
Wow, so homophobic.
~ Jenny Han
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
BIGOT, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
~ Ambrose Bierce
New York is just as provincial as anyone else.
~ Molly Ivins
Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I'm narrow-minded and a purist. I'd never mess with it.
~ Kim Shattuck