Quotes About Narrow-mindedness

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to normal, once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were.

know I come off as a little too optimistic, because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to "normal," once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were.

And here I thought you were open-minded." "I'm not," she said

I think a lot about our globalized world, our global interconnectedness, and it really saddens me when I see people 'othering,' when I see people who are willing to live narrowly.

Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right way? I think not. After all, do we fault a pilot for being narrow-minded when he follows the instrument panel [while] landing in a rainstorm? No, we want him to remain narrowly focused!

In my contact with people I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls—with the great outside world.

What does a bigot do when he meets someone who challenges his opinions? He doesn't give. He stays rigid. Doesn't even try to listen, just lashes out.

Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.

They were people who had no doubt whatsoever that the more narrow-minded they became, the closer they got to heaven.

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

Les monomaniques de tout poil, les gens qui sont possédés par une seule idée m'ont toujours spécialement intrigué, car plus un esprit se limite, plus il touche par ailleurs à l'infini.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

I think Black cinema is thought of in small terms. That's where most of the problems come from. When there's a film that has success, like in the '90s with the crime hood films; when one of them does well, it becomes the replication, or there's a romantic comedy that breaks out, it becomes a singular way of looking at it.

A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr. – Sydney Smith

I can be intolerant.

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it." [As quoted in The New Yorker , April 25, 2011]

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.