Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

… the politically engaged will tend also to be the most closed-minded.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of progress, is often a benign character and helpful citizen. The chance is far greater, furthermore, that he will be more creative than the man who can never come to more than a few gingerly held conclusions, or who thinks that all ideas should be received with equal hospitality. There is such a thing as being so broad you are flat.

The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men.

The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

We want to have our beliefs, and we want to enforce them on everyone else, but we don't want to have to think about everything that comes along with it.

People can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's ideas, and can't listen to other people's ideas without feeling like they're being slapped in the face. Those people are more in a prison.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.

Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.