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  • Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

  • A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.

    Mind   Together   Mouths  
  • The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.

    Thubten Yeshe (2011). “When the Chocolate Runs Out”, p.136, Simon and Schuster
  • Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

    Men   Self   Mind  
    Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”
  • It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

    George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.367, Wordsworth Editions
  • It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine that they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances of a given case, and the surest check, often the only check, on such perjury, is to recognize the impossibility that men of larger instruction and resources and experience could have been guilty of such conduct.

    Men   Justice   Ignorant  
    Valdez v. United States, 244 U.S. 432, 450, 1917.
  • America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

    America   Land   Mind  
  • A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

    James D. Watson (2011). “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. She took me in, fed, dressed me, but most importantly, she treated me with respect. She taught me that my abilities were nothing to be ashamed of, nothing I should try so hard to deny. She convinced me that what I had was a gift-not a curse- and that I shouldn't let other people's narrow minds and fears determine how I love, what I do, or how I perceive myself in the world. She actually made me believe that in no way, shape, or form did their uninformed opinions make me a freak.

    Believe   People   Parent  
  • The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man.

    Francis Parkman (1927). “The Works of Francis Parkman”
  • There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

    Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.428
  • 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. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 07, 2011
  • If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.

    Buddhist   Mind   Enemy  
  • But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.

    Imagination   Mind   Want  
    "Kafka On The Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, books.google.ru. October 10, 2011.
  • The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.

    Inspiration   Men   Doubt  
    James Martineau (1905). “Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau”
  • 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, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

    Success   Mother   Truth  
    James D. Watson (2011). “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

  • Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

  • Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

    Past   Self   People  
    Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.13, New World Library
  • Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.

  • A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

  • 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, for they speak of persons instead of things.

    Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.176, Sophia Institute Press
  • Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  • It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.

    Mind   Proof   Worthy  
    Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”
  • In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

    Art   Speak Less   Mind  
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.228
  • Have you got a local mind? Broaden it! Have you got an international mind? Broaden it! Have you got a universal mind? It is not enough, because there are other universes. Broaden it! Broaden your mind till you get a multi-universal mind! And yet, this is not enough too! Broaden it! Leave your village; leave your city; leave your country; leave the earth; leave the universe; leave all the universes! Don't let your mind to cast anchor in any port! Narrow mind is the greatest enemy of the truth! The best mind is the one which has no frontiers!

  • Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

    Wise   Boys   Men  
    Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”
  • Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

    Revenge   Mind   Littles  
    "Satires". Book by Juvenal, XIII, line 189, 1890.
  • It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

    Travel   Mean   Conceited  
    Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.101, Chartwell
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