The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.
We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.
Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
When I was growing up, I didn't know there was a world outside of California.
Usually, people who don't have a broad perspective see gay people as servants - as people who are there to make them look good.
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.
One point of view gives a one dimensional world.
Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.
Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.
Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
All I really worry about is my little world.
To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole.
A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.
Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside.
We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew behaves in such a way, a Negro thinks in a different way. The lazy generalities - 'You know how women are ... Isn't that just like a man?' The world cannot be understood from a single point of view.
Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.
Professional opinion is skeptical about anything that doesn't fit in with the version of reality it has been programmed to believe in. The skepticism comes from a lack of understanding and the need to defend the status quo and not from actual knowledge of the subject.
My world was small growing up. I never really left the three-mile radius of my tiny neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.
Small minds can never handle great themes.
My passion lies with whatever I'm doing at the time... I only see what is front of me.
