Mental Narrowness Quotes

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

How great in number are the little minded men.

There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

It is the business of little minds to shrink.