Top 61 Quotes About Narrowness
#2. Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
William Hazlitt
#3. I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
Alexander Herzen
#4. Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able to transmit God's own thought into your life.
Joseph Cook
#5. One person cannot make up for the evils of a whole system and it is the system that is to blame - the system of narrowness and of pride, and of exclusiveness, and of no one doing anything for another, unless there is something to be gained in return.
Amy Dillwyn
#6. The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.
Pat Conroy
#7. Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.
Pete Hamill
#8. The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation.
Pearl Zhu
#9. God cannot be held to the narrowness of literal and materialistic interpretations, nor measured by Human measurements, for His days are eons, and a thousand ages of our time are like an evening to Him.
Margaret Atwood
#10. The measure of your greatness is not by the narrowness of your beliefs, but by the broadness of your vision.
Debasish Mridha
#11. The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell ...
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#12. Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.
Phillips Brooks
#13. The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.
Harriet Martineau
#14. As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
Joseph Conrad
#15. I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#16. We've got to escape from narrowness. We're a movement, not a conspiracy. We've got to radiate contacts, and have as many people aware of us as possible. That's living, modern common sense.
H.G.Wells
#17. There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fair mindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan.
Herman Melville
#18. Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true prayer. When prayer is confined to self and to the sphere of one's personal needs, it dies by reason of its littleness, narrowness and selfishness.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#19. They would always find excuses to slip away, afraid to reveal the narrowness of their knowledge.
Daniel Keyes
#20. Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
V.S. Naipaul
#21. In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.
O. Henry
#22. should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover,
Henry David Thoreau
#23. Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
Red Skelton
#24. The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind, which sees not on all sides, than to commit mistakes in this particular.
David Hume
#25. The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.
John Ruskin
#26. she hated and detested Nicholas with all the narrowness of mind and littleness of purpose worthy a descendant of the house of Squeers.
Charles Dickens
#27. Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make sure that Barack Obama is focused on them with things that will make a difference. They know he tried, but they also know that it didn't do as well as they would have liked.
Chuck Schumer
#28. Literature's view of human nature encouraged understanding, sympathy, and identification with people not like oneself, but the world was pushing everyone in the opposite direction, toward narrowness,
Salman Rushdie
#29. Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
Walter Darby Bannard
#30. While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit.
Louise Wilder
#31. Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.
Robert Graves
#32. But I am bored by Casanovas, inveterate travelers, nature lovers, and the drug-obsessed, as they speak from the narrowness of their exhaustive experience of one thing.
Mark Greif
#33. There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.
Chuck Schumer
#34. People who live on continents get into the habit of regarding the ocean as journey's end, the full stop at the end of the trek. For people who live on islands, the sea is always the beginning. It's the ferry to the mainland, the escape route from the boredom and narrowness of home.
Jonathan Raban
#35. Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,
the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,
the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#36. It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.
Michael Leunig
#37. Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination
Rob Pike
#38. It would be narrowness to suppose that an artist can only care for the impressions of those who know the methods of his art as well as feel its effects. Art works for all whom it can touch.
Gordon S. Haight
#39. Let the mind be enlarged ... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
Francis Bacon
#40. In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.
Ralph Washington Sockman
#41. For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#42. The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness.
Wilhelm Reich
#43. The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
H.G.Wells
#44. She'll come, if not today, then tomorrow, but she'll find me. That's the cursed romanticism of all these pure hearts! Oh the vileness, oh the stupidity, oh the narrowness, of these rotten, sentimental souls
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#45. Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.
Harlan F. Stone
#46. There is no cure for narrowness of mind ...
Andre Norton
#47. What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
Samuel Johnson
#48. How we forgive narrowness of mind, when it accompanies largeness of heart. Yet no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling.
Graham Swift
#49. To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I can't believe the narrowness that has been attributed to God in terms of what he would approve and disapprove.
Marilynne Robinson
#50. I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#51. Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
Baltasar Gracian
#52. Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision
the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.
Josephine Hart
#53. None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#55. We hear a lot about Palestine now; it does not appeal to us. Anyone who goes there exchanges nationalism and narrowness for nationalism and narrowness.
Victor Klemperer
#56. I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
Thucydides
#57. A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.
E. M. Forster
#58. We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
Booker T. Washington
#59. Goldwater's approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes.
Rick Perlstein
#60. And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.
Jack Kerouac
#61. But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it.
F Scott Fitzgerald
