Quotes with narrow

  • One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
  • The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
  • What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

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  • Joseph Addison Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Paul Goodman When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Nelson Mandela A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.
    De lange weg naar vrijheid
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Niels Bohr An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Niels Bohr An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • William Hazlitt Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Christopher Fry Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
    Christopher Fry
    English poet and playwright (1907 - 2005)
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  • Thomas Gray Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • Albert Einstein Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ben Gibbard For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard For 'Narrow Stairs,' the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Bob Brown 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.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Abigail Adams I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.
    Letter to John Adams (30 June 1778)
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Booker T. Washington I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Booker T. Washington I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
    Up From Slavery (1901)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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