Narrow Minded Quotes

68 Narrow Minded quotes by 64 unique authors

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,… — Richard Donner
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it… — Rene Thom
The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it… — Martin Van Creveld
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… — Toby Stephens
I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were… — John Marsden
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
As our planet takes action to cast out its manmade poisons and heal its man-caused wounds, many human inhabitants will no doubt give way to… — Benjamin Hoff
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
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… — Bob Brown
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… — Bo Bice
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… — Albert Einstein
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
A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be. — Will Rogers
Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts.… — Jawaharlal Nehru
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… — Viggo Mortensen
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… — Karl Marx
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
The most learned are often the most narrow minded. — William Hazlitt
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
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
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.… — Marjane Satrapi
I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a… — Bruce Springsteen
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
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
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

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