A Quote by Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian - Leader
November 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964

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

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

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

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Mark Twain

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Christopher Hitchens

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Bruno Schulz

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

Mike Gallagher

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

David Starkey

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Friedrich Schiller

I've been wanting to tell people my theory about what goes on after time. It's beyond our consciousness. We get glimpses of it between the infrared and the ultraviolet - the narrow narrow corridor of light that we are able to perceive.