Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

How great in number are the little minded men.

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

There is no cure for narrowness of mind.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

Little things please little minds.

Small things amuse small minds.

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

The trouble with you, Eisenhower, is that you're too small minded.

Being a man of very few ideas, he cherished those he had with an exaggerated care.

Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.

I think that a lot of people in all walks of life have the impression, of course, that, 'I specialize in something. I can't - I don't have the time to read other things. I'll just go to pure entertainment when I'm relaxing, and then I'll come back to my pure specialty.' That produces - that attitude produces idiot savants, unfortunately.

The man who consumes sports to the exclusion of all other things will never be well-rounded.

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

You can't tell big dreams to small minded people.

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

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

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

There's nothing worse than poisoning our children's minds.

Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - 'this is just the way it is' - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver.