Quotes About Narrow-mindedness

You know they ain't bad people. They're just uneducated, unsophisticated, untraveled, immoral, and uncivilized. Plus stupid. -The Missing

Conservatism and passive acceptance... They can't think for themselves. Anything that's too complicated sends their heads reeling. Makes me want to puke.

Why mayn't they do what men do?' the Hero cried impetuously. 'I hate that contemptible narrow-mindedness. It's that that makes the ruin and horrors I see. Why mayn't they do what men do? I like the women who are brave enough not to be hypocrites. By Heaven! if these women are bad, I like them better than a set of hypocritical creatures who are all show, and deceive you in the end.

Small men curse what they cannot understand.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

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

limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. 

The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.

Beware of a man of one book.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

His mind was good, but he only understood one or two things in the whole world—samurai movies and the Macintosh—and he understood them far, far too well. It was a worldview with no room for someone like Juanita.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

That's what makes most places utterly impossible - the people. They're so completely hateful. They want everybody to conform to their beastly narrow little way of looking at things. And if one happens not to, one's treated as something unspeakable. And then there's nothing for it but to leave at once.

foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Fundamentalismus, so könnte man sagen, ist eine religiös versperrte Sicht auf die Welt.

the word "silo" does not just refer to a physical structure or organization (such as a department). It can also be a state of mind. Silos exist in structures. But they exist in our minds and social groups too. Silos breed tribalism. But they can also go hand in hand with tunnel vision.

it was just that prejudiced people linked together things they didn't like.

There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.

Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.