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Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination -- Rob Pike
Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able to transmit God's own thought into your life. -- Joseph Cook
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative. -- Michael Leunig
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. -- Alexander Herzen
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. -- Joseph Conrad
There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision. -- Chuck Schumer
Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true prayer. When prayer is confined to self and to the sphere of one's personal needs, it dies by reason of its littleness, narrowness and selfishness. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make sure that Barack Obama is focused on them with things that will make a difference. They know he tried, but they also know that it didn't do as well as they would have liked. -- Chuck Schumer
There is no cure for narrowness of mind ... -- Andre Norton
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice. -- Walter Darby Bannard
The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence. -- Alfred North Whitehead
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness. -- Booker T. Washington
Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. -- Rose Wilder Lane
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places. -- Red Skelton
Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views. -- William Hazlitt
Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness. -- Harlan F. Stone
We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage and the victims of our cultural narrowness. -- Stanley Krippner
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste. -- Baltasar Gracian
The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. -- H. G. Wells
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. -- E. M. Forster
The measure of your greatness is not by the narrowness of your beliefs, but by the broadness of your vision. -- Debasish Mridha
The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. -- Pat Conroy
While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit. -- Louise Wilder
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children. -- Phillips Brooks
Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind -- Francis Bacon
Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace. -- Robert Graves
Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths. -- Josephine Hart
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. -- Samuel Johnson
The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence. -- Harriet Martineau
There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision. -- Chuck Schumer
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind. -- Thucydides
The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness. -- Wilhelm Reich
I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . . -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fair mindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan. -- Herman Melville
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision. -- V. S. Naipaul
In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness. -- O. Henry
None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it. -- Hubert H. Humphrey

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