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The most learned are often the most narrow minded. -- William Hazlitt
I think in many ways narrow minded-attitudes lead to extreme thinking. -- Dalai Lama
He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes. -- Molly Ivins
We need to start asking ourselves, does religion make people narrow minded or open minded? -- Unarine Ramaru
We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes. -- Fred Allen
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
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
If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that. -- Rio Ferdinand
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
Those policies [of Jean-Marie Le Pen ]I find repellent. I believe many people right across consist the world do. There is no future in that type of narrow minded racism and nationalism. -- Rachel Maddow
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. -- Vincent Van Gogh
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. -- Christopher Hitchens
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. -- Aharon Appelfeld
Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it. -- Paul Bloom
When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work. -- Richard Donner
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many. -- Bob Brown
My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded. -- Toby Stephens
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. -- Lord Acton
Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes. -- Mike Epps
Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death. -- J. M. Coetzee
For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don't understand geopolitics? People think economists just deal with spreadsheets and charts. That's a narrow-minded caricature. -- Nouriel Roubini
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
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. -- Edmund White
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. -- James D. Watson
If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we're so pluralist. -- John Zorn
I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.' -- Bo Bice
The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something. -- Edmund White
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere. -- Marjane Satrapi
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York! -- Jules Verne
One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely. -- Mort Sahl
Isn't it curious that narrow-minded people are often the most thickheaded? -- Paul Frank Baer
The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become. -- Lin Yutang
A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be. -- Will Rogers
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. -- James D. Watson
The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club. -- Benjamin Hoff
These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist. -- Jane Russell
We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking. -- Debbie Reynolds
Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them. -- Winston Churchill
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man. -- Anton Chekhov
I went and studied music in Leeds. It really woke me up socially, to stop being so naÃ¯ve and narrow-minded. -- John Newman
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more. -- Darcey Bussell
England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines. -- Hanif Kureishi
When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you- -- J. K. Rowling
A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking. -- Gao Xingjian
A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic. -- Carlos Castaneda
The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded. -- Sathya Sai Baba
If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man. -- Marianne Williamson
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant. -- Albert Camus
Grace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself through you. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed. -- Herman Melville
You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. -- Konrad Lorenz
When you can program your own life, you're just going to program what you already like. Because of that, people's taste becomes much more narrow-minded. -- Rob Zombie
Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists. -- Haruki Murakami
This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family. -- Virchand Gandhi
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? -- Karl Marx
We are helping our Somali brothers get rid of these narrow-minded attackers. The Somali people do not support the extremists, they are on the side of our soldiers. -- Yoweri Museveni
you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you. -- J. E. Buckrose
As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness. -- Isidor Isaac Rabi
There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism. -- Tony Blair
My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need. -- Jeaniene Frost
As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless you make a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible. -- Viggo Mortensen
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A compass is narrow-minded-it always points to the magnetic north... We must discipline ourselves, personally, to fight any deviation from the course Jesus set for us. We cannot be tolerant of any other course. -- Billy Graham
The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it. -- Albert Einstein

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