Narrow Quotes

836 Narrow quotes by 671 unique authors

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… — James D. Watson
Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill. — Victor Davis Hanson
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men… — Mark Twain
I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in… — Franz Kafka
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates… — Philip Pullman
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places. — A.C. Grayling
He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read.… — John Bellairs
Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that… — Neal Stephenson
Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces… — Arundhati Roy
We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate… — Chogyam Trungpa
Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is… — Richard Bach
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… — Henry James
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to… — Henry James
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation! — John Muir
Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one. — H.G. Wells
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me.… — Haruki Murakami
Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as… — Jane Austen
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person. — Zig Ziglar
It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what… — Trudi Canavan
When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the… — Hermann Hesse
I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements,… — Anne Rice
The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. — George Eliot
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. — Honore de Balzac

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