Narrow Quotes

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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. — Christopher Fry
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. — Charles de Gaulle
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 have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which… — Michael Gove
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. — William Congreve
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and… — Charles Horton Cooley
I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into… — Billy Corgan
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious. — Umberto Eco
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or… — Emilio Estevez
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I… — Pierre de Fermat
Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in… — Mark Haddon
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care. — Mark Haddon
The most learned are often the most narrow minded. — William Hazlitt
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having… — William Hazlitt
The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks,… — Mark Helprin
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
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the… — Victor Hugo
We have a very narrow view of what is going on. — Daniel Kahneman
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook. — Hedy Lamarr
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part. — Damian Lewis
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,… — Lawrence G. Lovasik
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its… — Karl Marx

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