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Quotes About Narrow

Immy knocked on his open door. "Mr. Mallett?"The look on his narrow face was pained. "What's with the Mr. Mallett? When you don't call me Mike, it's usually trouble.
~ Kaye George, Broke
Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
~ Mark Haddon
There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.
~ William Congreve
The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.
~ Albert Einstein
There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.
~ Propertius
The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.
~ Albert Einstein
One science only will one genius fit/ So vast is art, so narrow human wit
~ Alexander Pope
Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit:
~ Alexander Pope
We cannot allow Brexit to be driven by narrow and divisive Tory ideology.
~ Keir Starmer
Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.
~ Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I followed the pavement a little over a mile and then turned left again onto a dirt road. It was as narrow as a bigot's mind, and I got in the ruts and stayed there.
~ Rex Stout
It is a peculiar irony that in the modern—and "postmodern"—world, Christianity has come to be regarded as narrow and moralistic. Originally, it was quite the reverse: figures such as Jesus and Paul were widely regarded as rebels, antinomians, disturbers of decency.)
~ Richard B. Hays
The door of the visible church is incomparably wider than the door of heaven (522)[.]
~ Richard Baxter
normally she restricts herself to a very narrow spectrum of emotions (irritable, irritated, irritating).
~ Kate Atkinson
For honor travels in a strait so narrowWhere one but goes abreast.
~ William Shakespeare
Extreme specialization has been the greatest disaster of the modern academic world. It has created narrow Mandarins, ignorant of the universal nature of reality, incapable of connecting concepts from different fields to bring everything together in one ultimate, unified subject. The AC is everything the academic world is not. It's about connecting everything. It demands that people be generalists, not the most narrow, blinkered specialists.
~ David Sinclair
When in doubt, it always pays to reduce scope.
~ David Thomas
Ideology is a ghetto where reason goes to die
~ Dean Cavanagh
The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves. From time to time something happens to shake them out of that groove.
~ Elaine Morgan
The gate is narrow but not the life. The gate opens out into largeness of life.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
All I will say is my brother's narrow idea of Christianity seems to bring more suffering into the world than relief.
~ Alison Goodman
However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.
~ Sigmar Gabriel
Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.
~ Timothy Keller