Quotes on narrow-minded

“He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.”

Criss Jami

“Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.”

Michael Bassey Johnson

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Søren Kierkegaard

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Coco Chanel

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Wayne Dyer

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Bertrand Russell

A fool is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms.

George Orwell

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

John Lennon

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

Arundhati Roy

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Edna Ferber

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Henri Bergson

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Homer

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana