A Quote by Bruno Schulz

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

Bruno Schulz

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Avoided Costs Dull Must Narrow Narrow-Minded One Thing Pedantry Pettiness Thing

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Bruno Schulz
Polish - Writer
July 12, 1892 - November 19, 1942

We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

Jawaharlal Nehru

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.

Philip Pullman

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

Vladimir Yakunin

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs.

Tim Bray

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.

Mick Jagger

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Mark Twain

Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right way? I think not. After all, do we fault a pilot for being narrow-minded when he follows the instrument panel while landing in a rainstorm? No, we want him to remain narrowly focused!

Billy Graham

Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.

Mike Gallagher

Single-mindedness. I hate to say it because I don't think it's the best thing for developing a person, but the single-mindedness - just concentrating in the one area - that's what it takes to be a champion.

Chris Evert

It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

Aristotle

Our education system has been taken over by bean counters and narrow-mindedness.

David Starkey

The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said, rectify yourself and be done.