Quotes with narrowness

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• Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

  Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

  Henri-Frédéric Amiel
  Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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• I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

  Alexander Herzen
  Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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• Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

  Phillips Brooks
  American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-confidence
• prodigality
• information
• realization
• horrified
• privilege

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