Narrowminded Quotes
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
james d. watson— The Double Helix
The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.
robert benchley— "The Tooth, the Whole Tooth, and Nothing but the Tooth", in Love Conquers All (1922)
The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men.
william hazlitt— No. 330 (Lecture VIII, "On the Living Poets")
A narrow-minded nonconformist.
arthur mee— Lord Northcliffe; quoted in The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature ISBN 0-19-211582-0, art. "Arthur Mee" p.347
Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.
daniel c. dennett— p. 173 (Brainstorms (1978))
And they would ask, well, now, are you one of those narrow-minded Baptists who think only Baptists are going to heaven? To which I enjoy replying, now actually I'm more narrow than that, I don't think all the Baptists are going to make it.
mike huckabee— CSIS "Decision 2008" Press Conference, 28 September 2007, retrieved on 2011-03-01
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?
karl marx— (BASTIAT AND CAREY), p. 809-810
