A Quote by Friedrich Schiller

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Friedrich Schiller

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Friedrich Schiller
German - Dramatist
November 10, 1759 - May 9, 1805

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

Friedrich Schiller

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

Samuel Johnson

It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.

Anthony Hopkins

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.

Nicolas Chamfort

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.

Michael Snow

A tear that trembles for a little while Upon the trembling eyelid, till the world Wavers within its circle like a dream, Holds more of meaning in its narrow orb Than all the distant landscape that it blurs.

Henry Van Dyke

No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.

Lee Iacocca

It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable.

Edmund Burke

The time is coming when we will go beyond narrow religious confines and embrace a spirituality that will include the best of all religions and transcend narrow boundaries.

Deepak Chopra

Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children.