restricted understanding Quotes

The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well.

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

I think it's true that people seemed to have had a kind of tunnel vision in my regard, and that has been something that I've been having to fight against for a long time.

All I know is what I am getting.

Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres; in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles.

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

We have a very narrow view of what is going on.

Ignorance is constricted awareness.

The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth

Expert knowledge is limited knowledge