Narrow Quotes

836 Narrow quotes by 671 unique authors

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. — Seneca the Younger
Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going. — George H. W. Bush
With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political… — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see. — John Dryden
My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my… — Edvard Munch
The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill. — Anna Brownell Jameson
But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour,… — Walter Pater
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
One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. — Nelson Mandela
About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they… — Earl Nightingale
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured… — Arthur Eddington
Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall,… — Sidney Lanier
Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service. — Sathya Sai Baba
In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow... — Wassily Kandinsky
It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and… — J M W Turner
By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a… — Paul Goldberger
We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction,… — Abdallah II
More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler. — Roger Tory Peterson
The green is so narrow that if you over-club, you've got an impossible bunker shot. If you're short, you're pretty much dead. — Vijay Singh
I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size. — Emily Dickinson
A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be. — Will Rogers
Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason… — Rachel Carson
I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him… — Steve Jobs

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