Quotes About Small-mindedness

Just for a moment I hated Lymstock and its narrow boundaries, and its gossiping whispering women.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

this, they've never felt that, they no longer feel anything, they don't count anymore. I think it's small-minded. I wish there were more people over sixty here, to tell you the truth.

That unlettered small-knowing soul.

And then the petty jealousy of these small prunes-and-prisms places — if you do anything the people you went to school with can't do some of them will never forgive you.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

It is natural to quarrel, to be selfish, to live a small-minded life. It is supernatural to love unconditionally, to serve others, to live a life of vision and faith.

How terrible it is to recognize that one's brilliance rests solely upon the small-mindedness of others.

Klonite se ljudi koji ?e pokušati omalovažiti vaše ambicije. Mali ljudi ?ine takve stvari, dok veliki ljudi mogu u?uniti da se osetite da i vi možate postati veliki

They were women not strong enough or smart enough to leave. Women without imagination. So they stayed in Wind Gap and played their teenage lives on an endless loop.

The village road was as narrow as her old granny's mind.

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbor lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready to forgive a prince the most fabulous wealth than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom.

No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbour lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready to forgive a prince the most fabulous wealth rather than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom.

It always surprises me how successful in life angry, small-minded people can be. I must underestimate these virtues.

But what if absolute consistency on any issue from the left or the right, religious or secular, is an indication of mediocre intelligence and a lack of intellectual honesty? What if the world is a complex place? What if leadership requires flexibility? What if ideology is a bad substitute for common sense? What if ideological consistency, let alone "purity," is a sign of small-mindedness, maybe even stupidity? Logically

Las gentes con el alma pequeña siempre tratan de empequeñecer a los demás

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.

Petty minds foster petty hearts, and have the funny habit of shooting themselves in the foot.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name was connected were rumors only,—noise, sayings, words; less than words— palabres, as the energetic language of the South expresses it.

in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the word "teeny-weeny.