“ Most of us are in favor of tolerance, but it is difficult to tolerate the intolerant, and impossible to tolerate the intolerable. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
- 1.9K
“ In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
- 900
“ The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. ”
- Florence Nightingale- Copy
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“ Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
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“ Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. ”
- Ben Okri- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from, man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. ”
- Niels Bohr- Copy
- 3.1K
“ If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ”
- George Edward Woodberry- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
- 2.8K
“ When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existance. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. ”
- E. Joseph Crossman- Copy
- 1.8K
“ At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans. ”
- John Kerry- Copy
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“ I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ”
- Booker T. Washington- Copy
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“ Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places. ”
- Red Skelton- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I narrow-mindedly outlawed the word "unique." Practically every press release contains it. Practically nothing ever is. ”
- Fred Hechinger- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed. ”
- Mark Morrison Reed- Copy
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“ An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. ”
- Niels Bohr- Copy
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“ Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. ”
- Christopher Fry- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. ”
- Thomas Gray- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ”
- Francois de Salignac Fenelon- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. ”
- Alexander Herzen- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ”
- Booker T. Washington- Copy
- 3.8K
“ If only the true and useful things were recorded, our huge historical libraries would be reduced to very narrow dimensions — but we would know more, and know it better. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
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