Small Mindedness Quotes (17 quotes)

“...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.”
― Chris Crutcher, Whale Talk

tags: bigotry, prejudice, racism, small-mindedness

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“Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2

tags: generosity, jealousy, reckoning, small-mindedness, tea, wine

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“It't hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: bigotry, elitism, small-mindedness, willful-ignorance

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“I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

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“Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

tags: chickenshit, petty, small-mindedness

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“A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: music, poets, small-mindedness, willful-ignorance

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“How terrible it is to recognize that one’s brilliance rests solely upon the small-mindedness of others.”
― Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Madeleine Is Sleeping

tags: brilliance, small-mindedness

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“Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, arrogance, arrogant, axiom, axioms, bigheaded, bigheadedness, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, funny, gnome, gnomes, humble, humbled, humility, humor, humorous, humour, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, small-minded, small-mindedness, south-africa, south-african, symptom, symptoms, thought-provoking, thoughtful

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“Yet decency nagged at their reluctant hearts; and they acknowledged that, too, in unconscious phrases -- 'I fail to understand...', 'I cannot bring myself to overlook...', 'Tolerance is all very well up to a point...' -- as if they had tried the ways of magnanimity but found them too exigent.”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Bay of Noon

tags: decency, small-mindedness

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“And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn’t know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.”
― Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Unforgotten Coat

tags: ignorance, small-mindedness, unknowing

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“I don’t think haters are small-minded; it’s more tragic than that. I think they’re great minded, but choose to sell themselves short every day.”
― Steve Maraboli

tags: haters, small-mindedness

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“...but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: emma, small-mindedness

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“We have returned to Italy because we cannot live in England. Small-minded, smug, self-righteous, unjust, a country that hates the stranger, whether that stranger be a foreigner or an atheist, or a poet, or a thinker, or a radical, or a woman. For women are strange to men.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

tags: britain, england, gender, hate, racism, small-mindedness, united-kingdom, women

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“Empowered manifestors are masters of their own mind. They are not slaves to self-limiting beliefs, nor servants to small-minded views of the world.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

tags: deliberate-creation, empowered, limitless-consciousness, manifestation, manifesting, manifestor, narrow-mindedness, self-empowerment, self-limiting-beliefs, small-mindedness

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“Everyone is different but only white people were normal. Even the television says that.”
― Tamai Kobayashi, Prairie Ostrich

tags: casual-bigotry, small-mindedness

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“Small talk is one of the most common symptoms of small-mindedness.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: gossip, intellectual, intelligence, pessimism, small-minded, small-mindedness, small-talk, stoicism, stupid, stupidity

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“Nickel-and-diming people can cost you a pretty penny.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide

tags: cost-of-doing-business, nickel-and-dimed, pennywise, short-sighted, short-sightedness, small-mindedness, unscrupulous

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