Small-mindedness Quotes

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

How great in number are the little minded men.

People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking.

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

Thank God for my hobgoblin, small-minded consistency.

...the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.

Why can't I be friends with somebody who's gay? Why not? You can miss out on a lot by being so small-minded and stereotypical about people. It's stupid.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

I like the line leading up to that: "I made your daughter the lead dancer, and you're not committed!" It's how people in their own little narrow worlds get so bent out of shape over the silliest things. I've seen it all my life, especially growing up in the South - the tempest in a teapot.

I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors.

Never let your small business make you small-minded.

There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

Envy is littleness of soul.