Close Minded Quotes

#1. There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.

Ione Skye

#2. Being dogmatic and close-minded are not virtues.

Walter E. Jacobson

#3. Tell her I got detention for defending her honour," Alec shouted in the distance.
"Did he really?"
"Well, he got detention, but mostly for calling Akira a close-minded troglodyte," she said.

Cecily White

#4. Luna has told me all about you, young lady,' said Xenophilius, 'you are, I gather, not unintelligent, but painfully limited. Narrow. Close-minded.' 'Perhaps you ought to try on the hat, Hermione,' said Ron, nodding towards the ludicrous headdress. His voice shook with the strain of not laughing.

J.K. Rowling

#5. I'm not saying that hip-hop needs gay rappers or anything, but they need to stop being so close-minded because that will just cause the genre to fail. Look at pop. Pop doesn't discriminate against people. Look at Lady Gaga, y'know what I mean?

ASAP Rocky

#6. Being called close-minded by religious people is a bit like being called yellow by a bunch of bananas.

Pat Condell

#7. One day the world will be so badly wounded that those who try to repair it will only be called "close-minded.

Danielle Valenilla

#8. I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of art such as Garden State go untouched is beyond me. It just proves how close-minded America really is, and I refuse to take part in it.

Zach Braff

#9. Call me close-minded, but hearing my girlfriend talk like a five-thousand-year-old male god was not on my top ten list of Things I Find Attractive.

Rick Riordan

#10. I hope that nothing ever wussifies me to deny my own personal beliefs. Brainwashed wussies have been taught that standing up for yourself and defending your personal point of view makes you a close-minded hate monger. One must also be respectful of dissenting belief while supporting their own.

Brad Stine

#11. To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.

Marilyn Manson

#12. I just think that most of the people are very close minded.

Alex Chiu

#13. I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.

Beth Ditto

#14. Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

Rachel Caine

#15. I've been a Christian for a long time, and I think that Christianity gets a bad rap. I think that people's perception of what a Christian is today is something that is close-minded and narrow, and that's not what I am.

Andie MacDowell

#16. It was amazing how our minds crafted stories for strangers who probably needed love more than our close-minded judgments. It was so easy to judge from the outside looking in,

Brittainy C. Cherry

#17. I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

Alan Dershowitz

#18. If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god.

Greta Christina

#19. I would probably list myself as mostly straight. I've met guys all the time that I'm like, Damn, that's a good-looking guy, you know? I've never been, like, Oh, I want to kiss that guy. I really love women. But I think defining yourself as 100% anything is kind of near-sighted and close-minded.

Josh Hutcherson

#20. Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.

Alex Chiu

#21. I feel like I can be myself in L.A. I feel like Mississippi is a little close-minded; not all of Mississippi is, but just the part that I came from. They really don't get outsiders.

Israel Broussard

#22. I've been looking out at the world through windows I've opened across the net. It's an extremely close-minded and twisted world.

Alice

#23. what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.

David Lagercrantz

#24. Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.

Criss Jami

#25. Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.

Peter Carey

#26. Men close their minds
when see a naked truth.

Toba Beta

#27. I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

Bernard Beckett

#28. To them she wore the costume of the oppressed from distant lands and was the poster child of backwardness in a forward thinking world. To her, their faces bore the costume of the ignorant, and they were poster children for gross close-mindedness in an open-minded, ever changing world

Umm Zakiyyah

#29. I'm mesmerized by the way he speaks - New Orleans is pronounced N'awlins. When he says backyard, it's backyaaad. It's the kind of voice that makes you feel instantly at home, like you're a close friend or part of the inner circle.
- SINGLE-MINDED

Lisa Daily

#30. There was no way that I would admit that I wouldn't have minded sharing a room with Riley. Regardless of how annoyed and frustrated I was with his behavior, I still felt safer with him close by.

Ivy Sinclair

#31. In trying times, such as the ones we currently find ourselves mired in the middle of, one wants a distraction from one's troubles, and I find it most helpful to plan and engage in a pleasant outing or two with close and like-minded friends. Or you could go gator huntin'.

Jill Conner Browne