Quotes About Narrow-mindedness

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

But at the time of their call they were exceedingly ignorant, narrow-minded, superstitious, full of Jewish prejudices, misconceptions, and animosities. They had much to unlearn of what was bad, as well as much to learn of what was good, and they were slow both to learn and to unlearn.

It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.

A las mentes obtusas solo se les ocurren mezquindades».

pensaba que el orgullo nacionalista era una verdadera gilipollez

Un ignorante piensa que los extranjeros son estúpidos, sin darse cuenta de que él también parecería igual de necio si viajase al extranjero.

Cette vie que tu as réduite à des petits tracas, à de légers soucis qui occupent ton esprit étroit comme l'anneau que tu portes à ton annulaire gauche.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

But it is distressing that any organisation consisting of large numbers of young men, should be so utterly little minded and lacking in not only vision but in commonsense or common understanding. The R.S.S. is typical in this respect of the type of organisation that grew up in various parts of Europe in support of fascism. . . .

Era este hombre muy estirado y relamido, y la gente estirada y relamida suele vivir habitualmente en un mundo tan reducido que cualquier cosa violenta e inusitada les puede sacar brusca y completamente de él; por ello, esta clase de gente suele desconfiar instintivamente de todo lo que represente una cierta originalidad.

I've been looking out at the world through windows I've opened across the net. It's an extremely close-minded and twisted world.

growth is limited by their fanaticism. They belong mostly to the

Politicians will be politicians, they will have a weakness at times for not seeing beyond their nose.

An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

Our education system has been taken over by bean counters and narrow-mindedness.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

They're not cruel; they're just pig-headed and provincial. The fact that you have feelings never occurs to them.

You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.

The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

Ruthless billionaires and small interest groups flourish in today's chaotic world not because they read the map better than anyone else, but because they have very narrow aims.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.