
Top 22 Quotes About Small Mindedness
#1. I want to live outside of the box, and I definitely don't want to put God in a box, so I want to be able to dream big and kind of let that go of my small-mindedness.
Jodi Benson
#2. People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking.
Pattie Boyd
#3. How terrible it is to recognize that one's brilliance rests solely upon the small-mindedness of others.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
#4. Thiel rejects the small-mindedness of most of the Valley's entrepreneurialism. The motto of Founders Fund is: "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters." But
Richard Byrne Reilly
#5. We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
Isabel Allende
#6. People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.
Alice Walker
#7. If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.
Jeanette Winterson
#8. Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
Omar Khayyam
#9. Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race.
Jimmy Carter
#10. Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
Samuel Johnson
#11. I like when you are telling a story and fall into an impression.
Bill Hader
#12. [Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was.
Kristyn Van Cleave
#13. We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious; we should be purposefully obnoxious.
PZ Myers
#14. I don't think haters are small-minded; it's more tragic than that. I think they're great minded, but choose to sell themselves short every day.
Steve Maraboli
#15. It's almost a blessing when we meet people who naturally want to do the sort of things that are in high demand in society. What a gift to do that, as opposed to other people who would say, 'I want to be a novelist but actually I have to be an accountant.'
Alain De Botton
#16. Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#17. People who don't quite fit society, they are often kind of either under an awful lot of pressure or otherwise not acceptable to the mainstream and that tells us a lot about who we are. The people that don't fit are a great way of reflecting on all of us.
Lenny Abrahamson
#18. She seemed a bit crazy but I kept looking at her body and I didn't care.
Charles Bukowski
#19. He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.
Charles Spurgeon
#20. Racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
Chris Crutcher
#21. What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?
Joyce Rachelle
#22. And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn't know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.
Frank Cottrell Boyce
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