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Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. -- Juvenal
The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. -- Thubten Yeshe
Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind. -- Glen Cook
The most learned are often the most narrow minded. -- William Hazlitt
A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together. -- Celia Green
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person. -- Zig Ziglar
He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes. -- Molly Ivins
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see. -- John Dryden
We need to start asking ourselves, does religion make people narrow minded or open minded? -- Unarine Ramaru
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. -- George Eliot
We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic. -- Dov Davidoff
Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition -- Henry Mintzberg
I am going to go into this world, and I don't care if you and your narrow mind cannot be a part of it. -- Elise Kova
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. -- Nelson Mandela
There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us. -- Walter Savage Landor
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. -- Henry James
It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem. -- Luc de Clapiers
The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom. -- James Martineau
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. -- Haruki Murakami
If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust. -- George Horace Lorimer
If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true. -- Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree. -- Annie Besant
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. -- E. Joseph Cossman
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. -- Thomas Hood
My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic. -- Jamais Cascio
Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend. -- Orson F. Whitney
A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts. -- Joseph Lancaster
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing. -- Madonna Ciccone
A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place. -- Samuel Johnson
Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it. -- Dalai Lama
The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs. -- Friedrich Schiller
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. -- Marva Collins
Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind. -- Rupert Spira
The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas. -- Napoleon Hill
Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart? -- Robert Burns
In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims. -- Friedrich Schiller
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places. -- A.C. Grayling
Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ. -- Oswald Chambers
You know how to tell when you're getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist. -- Red Skelton
My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything? -- Saul Bellow
Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind -- Anne Sexton
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. -- Marva Collins
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past. -- Eckhart Tolle

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