Top 1200 Narrow-Minded Quotes & Sayings

The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

I think in many ways narrow minded-attitudes lead to extreme thinking.

I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure what they want to do with themselves, hesitate because they have a great deal more to deal with. A nature rich in fine and complex possibilities takes more time to dispose of itself, but when it does, the world's beauty is the gainer.

We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes.

The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.

A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.

I think Peter King... he's kind of narrow-minded.

When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that’s exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it’s awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.

A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.

He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

The British in South Africa always portrayed themselves as more enlightened and tolerant than the 'narrow-minded', 'intolerant' Boers.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

I think to put someone in a box is somewhat narrow-minded.

I used to always wear jeans, T-shirts and tracksuits because I was narrow-minded about fashion.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

Your movie becomes much more narrow-minded when you have like-minded department heads. Whereas if you can surround yourself with people who have been a mother before, been a grandmother before, you get a much broader and wide-reaching swath of human emotions.

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!

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.

And they would ask, well, now, are you one of those narrow-minded Baptists who think only Baptists are going to heaven? To which I enjoy replying, now actually I'm more narrow than that, I don't think all the Baptists are going to make it.

One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

In India, people have narrow-minded views about nudity and boldness.

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.

We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with us. We must remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ in this passage: ‘The gate is narrow’. Repentance, and faith in Christ, and holiness of life, have never been fashionable. The true flock of Christ has always been small. It must not move us to find that we are reckoned singular, and peculiar, and bigoted, and narrow minded. This is the ‘narrow way’. Surely it is better to enter into eternal life with a few, than to go to ‘destruction’ with a great company

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

I went and studied music in Leeds. It really woke me up socially, to stop being so naïve and narrow-minded.

Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.

There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-

The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

The world is as large as the range of one's interests. A narrow-minded man has a narrow outlook. The walls of his world shut out the broader horizon of affairs. Prejudice can maintain walls that no invention can remove.

Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture.

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.

My dad is this typical orthodox, narrow-minded Punjabi man in front of whom you can't even utter the word called 'boyfriend.'

Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition

Isn't it curious that narrow-minded people are often the most thickheaded?

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

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

When it comes to talking about beating certain teams, we can be narrow-minded when we need to look at the bigger picture.

I had a very narrow-minded view on what was pretty and what wasn't. I automatically thought that tanned was attractive.

Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.

You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets.

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

Our constituents deserve better than narrow-minded political games.

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.