| "It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out." »Alexander Pope |
| "He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes." »Black Elk |
| "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." »Mark Twain |
| "It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent." »Vincent Van Gogh |
| "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." »Booker T. Washington |
| "Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places." »E. Joseph Crossman |
| "Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass." »Joseph Addison |
| "There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion." »Emerich Edward Dalbert |
| "The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed." »Mark Morrison-Reed |
| "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." »Niels Bohr |
| "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." »Niels Henrik David Bohr |
| "If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live." »George E. Woodberry |
| "A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member." »Johathan Edwards |
| "For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him." »George Orwell |
| "It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others...Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society." »Doris Lessing |
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