Restricted Thinking Quotes

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, "Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options.

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.

I’ve never seen a leader who allows himself to be kept in the box.

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer.