Nicole Seah Quotes

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

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

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

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.

The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.

Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

There is a segment of the right that doesn't care about winning, what I call zealotry masquerading as principle.

It comes to pass that men do so magnify their own opinions, and are as censorious of any that differ from them in lesser things

There’s too much orthodoxy in the political process today.

Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them.

I don’t care for ideological people. It’s like those people just want to stop thinking.

I have often thought that one of the less attractive traits of various professional bodies and institutions is the deeply ingrained suspicion and outright hostility which can exist towards anything unorthodox or unconventional.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

It's simple-minded people like that, the ones that are afraid of change, they use everything in their power to defend what they stand up for instead of trying to listen and understand what's going on.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

Consistency is the defense of a small mind

There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer.

We know the only fish that goes with the flow is a dead fish.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.

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

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.