Narrow Worldview Quotes

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.

I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.

WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events, and seem each to believe that the walls and curtains which shut in their world, and shut out everything else, must of necessity be larger than anything hidden beyond.

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

In my situation, frankly, I'm a bit institutionalised - this [the embassy] is the world .. it's visually the world [for me].

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.