Narrow Quotes
836 Narrow quotes by 671 unique authors
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Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter out…
— Cass Sunstein
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The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest,…
— Dalai Lama
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As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean…
— William Wordsworth
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... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question…
— Bob Black
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Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.
— Marva Collins
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Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.
— Unknown Author
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Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the hours By the…
— Christina Rossetti
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The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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There are only two states of consciousness that exist - the state of the ego and the state of love. The ego is the narrow…
— Rajneesh
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God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.
— James Salter
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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
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There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no…
— Matthew Henson
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The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind…
— Erich Heller
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There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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