Quotes About Close Mindedness

#1. 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

#2. Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.

David Foster

#3. As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.

Maajid Nawaz

#4. Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause.

Carlton Mellick III

#5. What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

Greg Saunier

#6. It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

Milan Kundera

#7. To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

Thomas Paine

#8. You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer," said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

Charles Dickens

#9. Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. Californias red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there will always be frogs jumping here in Calaveras County, and in other places, too.

Robert Stack

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

Danielle Valenilla

#12. The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Brooks Atkinson

#13. When the doors begin to close, the mind begins to open.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#14. Innovators "view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.

Jason Jennings

#15. It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.

Criss Jami

#16. In my opinion, anyone who claims to speak for God is probably talking out of the wrong end, anyway.

Martha Brockenbrough

#17. But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so if you take someone like Eddie Murphy, who is not a big fan of rehearsal. You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes - it's all about capturing the moment - in the moment, you know.

Bill Condon

#18. What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

Graham Greene

#19. If stupid were fuel, we would never run out.

Karen Joy Fowler

#20. That strong, grassy smell, raw milk in a tin cup.

Marilynne Robinson

#21. One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

Bob Schaffer

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

Marilyn Manson

#23. A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

Vincent Van Gogh

#24. Tongue in cheek, Donald said, "Milord, I thought she was safely ensconced in your tent. How is it that you keep misplacing her?

Delilah Devlin

#25. A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery ... don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me?

Ashly Lorenzana

#26. Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.

Eric Hirzel

#27. The strength of one's opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter.

Eric Hirzel

#28. One's opinion should only be as strong as one's knowledge on the matter.

Eric Hirzel

#29. A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

Eric Schmidt

#30. To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants.

Criss Jami

#31. Reading her reviews kept his memory of her alive in a way he probably shouldn't want.

Rainbow Rowell