Quotes About Narrow-mindedness

I don't get along with people who think they know everything and everyone.

Jonah's "sin," as noted above, was that he dared to limit God's definition of what is holy to his own definition of what is holy. He assumed that God had no ability to love beyond the boundaries of Jonah's love.

What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much the revival of bigotry; and where there is the strong permanent leaven of intolerance in the feelings of a people, which at all times abides in the middle classes of this country, it needs but little to provoke them into actively persecuting those whom they have never ceased to think proper objects of persecution.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Some human faults are military virtues, like stupidity, and arrogance, and narrow-mindedness.

My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

Everyone's so narrow and mean and --' 'No. Only a few people are. But the rest of us -- don't you see? The rest of us become narrow and mean when we live falsely....

Anyone who starts out with the conviction that the road to racial justice is only one lane wide will inevitably create a traffic jam and make the journey infinitely longer.

an unbeliever may be as bigoted as any of the orthodox, and

It's people who don't think who sink into bigotry.

The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one-track mind.

Beware of a man of one book.

You're suffering from some serious myopia my friend.

Mostafa El-Bermawy of Wired.com suggests, "From your Facebook feed to your Google Search, as your experience online grows increasingly personalized, the internet's islands keep getting more segregated and sound proofed. . . . Without realizing it, we develop tunnel vision.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

In many ways, the Internet is about diversification, and yet, in the wrong hands, the digital world can use those very examples to reinforce the narrowest of perspectives.

La gente dice: pobres tiene que haber siempre. Y se quedan tan anchos, tan estrechos de miras, tan vacíos de espíritu.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Ser de la izquierda es, como ser de la derecha, una de las infinitas maneras que el hombre puede elegir para ser un imbécil.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

There's nothing more I hate than a wrestling snob.

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 words "teeny weeny.