Quotes About Narrow-mindedness

Sticking to old and narrow views of life makes us look foolish in God

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

Science is a broad church full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about even less.

Science is a broad church full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about ever less.

Il Canonico rispose che lui non era affatto d'idee larghe e che, per dire il vero, questo non gli dispiaceva, perché la larghezza d'idee spesso non era altro che superficialità.

El fanatismo, el temor, la esperanza, el ardiente debate, la oración callada, la generosidad ejemplar, la intolerancia estrecha de miras y la necesidad profunda de nuevas ideas, todo era como una epidemia que recorría febrilmente la superficie del minúsculo planeta Tierra.

We can do nothing about those who do, those fools who think that dogma equates with truth.

Toleration is odious to the intolerant.

You're so shortsighted, you might as well be blind!

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing.

En esta vida lo único que sienta cátedra es el prejuicio.

Porque en esta vida lo único que sienta cátedra es el prejuicio.

They are so rigid,' he said in a sudden angry voice. 'Why do they not see that this rigidity turns away our greatest minds?

Some folks can't see no higher than the steam from their own pot of stew.

supunerea fata de legamantul de a crede numai probabilul, mediocrul, banalul si ceea ce este sarac in semnificatii, de a renunta la tot ce e strain si insemnat si de a reduce la obisnuit tot ce e neobisnuit. Existau doar... orizonturi de o ingustime apasatoare si pustiul nesfarsit al rutinei.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

How harmful overspecialization is. It cuts knowledge at a million points and leaves it bleeding.

He supposed it was inevitable. Dip a person into one particular specialty deeply enough and long enough, and he would automatically begin to assume that specialists in all other fields were magicians, judging the depth of their wisdom by the breadth of his own ignorance...

The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.

Beware of the man of one book.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

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.