Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.
...the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.
It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine that they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances of a given case, and the surest check, often the only check, on such perjury, is to recognize the impossibility that men of larger instruction and resources and experience could have been guilty of such conduct.
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.
As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.