Quotes About Narrow Minds

#1. One of the most stinging criticisms made against Christians is that their minds are narrow and their hearts small. This may not be wholly true, but that such a charge can be made at all is sufficient cause for serious heart searching and prayer.

A.W. Tozer

#2. A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture.

Spiro T. Agnew

#3. Science is a broad church full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about even less.

Steve Jones

#4. Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

Lewis Carroll

#5. He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars.

Nevil Shute

#6. democracy without real patriotism moves toward the destruction of the ordered liberty bequeathed to us by the founders.

Eric Metaxas

#7. Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.

Orson F. Whitney

#8. It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.

Gwen Ifill

#9. Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

James George Frazer

#10. They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

Terry Pratchett

#11. The grandest form of delusion is misconstruing the obvious. Persons with an open, inquisitive, and intuitive mind can detect hidden clues that aggressive, narrow-minded, and impatient rationalist fail to perceive.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#12. A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

Kabir

#13. Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#14. Sometimes knowledge impedes change: We know more but do less.

Mark Bryan

#15. 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.

Haruki Murakami

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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#17. Majeed was a self-confessed Holocaust denier. I had witnessed his indignant nihilism about the six million condemned to be extinguished infinitely in countless narrow minds like his. Despite his intelligence, he possessed capacities I had never previously encountered. I

Qanta A. Ahmed

#18. A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.

Joseph Lancaster

#19. Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

Thomas Jefferson

#20. Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

Jane Porter

#21. Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

#22. Did not. My stubbornness doesn't even own a gun. My stubbornness is a pacifist.

Sophie Oak

#23. There is something you despise, so you narrow your minds into only accepting the direct opposite. Instead of making an attempt to walk down any of the other near limitless paths of spirit, you choose to abandon them all because of a hatred for one.

Dylan Doose

#24. Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.

Sathya Sai Baba

#25. America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Ernest Hemingway,

#26. Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.

Nicolas Chamfort

#27. 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.

Luc De Clapiers

#28. 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.

Honore De Balzac

#29. Good, that's a job well done," Grishmak said cheerfully. "Am I the only one who's hungry?

Stuart Hill

#30. As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

John Stuart Mill