Close Mindedness Quotes

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.”
― Milan Kundera, Encounter

“The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.”
― Brooks Atkinson

“A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery...don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me?”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.”
― Eric Schmidt

“The strength of one's opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter.”
― Eric Hirzel

“It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Being different will always threaten the institution of understanding of a closed mind. However, evolution is built on difference, changing and the concept of thinking outside the box. Live to be your own unique brand, without apology.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.”
― Eric Hirzel

“The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool kids and never for those upright and uptight religious people everybody hates.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“... But these skeptics are only selectively skeptical. They think themselves enlightened for resisting all this new proof and remaining steadfast in mistrusting anything that someone else says. But it is a false enlightenment to accept only those ideas that align with one's worldview and reject those that don't.”
― Ken Ilgunas, Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland

“People who make up their minds about something never listen to advice - especially when it's to the contrary.”
― Steven Erikson, Reaper's Gale

“One day the world will be so badly wounded that those who try to repair it will only be called "close-minded.”
― Danielle Valenilla, Fun Dip & Other Misfortunes

“So many it seems, have made it their life's goal to bask in the ignorance of their certainty.”
― John Chaplin

“The walls we build around us to keep the noise out only reverberate the same ideas, notions and beliefs we enforce, leaving no room for debate. When we opt out of an argument we are choosing to ignore opposing views thereby failing to understand the other.”
― Aysha Taryam

“In my opinion, anyone who claims to speak for God is probably talking out of the wrong end, anyway.”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“...few truly understood how disheartening it was to be cut off from worlds so strange and distant they remained to us fantasies rather than distant realities, too surreal and foreign to be touched. Their minds were fixated on what they knew to be real, unable to create the atmospheres of the nebulous realms that lay just beyond our reach, just beyond the dimming horizon, our celestial limits.”
― Moonshine Noire

“I’m socially impaired. I get surprised all the time by people saying and doing irrational things. Take gay marriage. Why would some people get so upset that people they didn’t even know wanted to get married?”
“For the same reason men denied women the vote for so long. It threatens their status and their understanding of the world.”
She beamed, delighted that he saw it, too. “That’s right! I had to think and think to figure that out. Though I still don’t see why they’re so scared of changing their minds.”
“Because the world is a dangerous place. If it doesn’t work the way we believe it does, the danger becomes unmanageable.”
― Eileen Wilks, Mind Magic

“She was not only unable to make the least allowance for a divergence from this way, but utterly unable to conceive that another existed for those who believed in a God, or acknowledged human power at all. She was as much at a loss to conceive how any good could come out of that Nazareth of her abhorrence, as an ancient geographer would have been to have pointed out America in a classical map.”
― Charles Robert Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer

“Those who do not seek Wisdom do not see Wisdom, even when she passes them by; they see only that which appeals to their lusts: and this substitute becomes their variation of Wisdom.”
― Criss Jami

“The meaning of life can best be simplified as gratifying a personalized set of instincts.”
― Eric Hirzel

“If you ever don't see irony, it's because you're not seeing everything.”
― Eric Hirzel

“Η ανευθυνότητα δεν αποδίδει. Η ζωή είναι το άγνωστο και τίποτε δεν μπορεί να γίνει γνωστό, εκτός από το γεγονός ότι έρχομαστε στον κόσμο για να τρώμε και να παραμένουμε ζωντανοί όσο περισσότερο μπορούμε.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“Η μεγάλη του θλίψη δεν οφειλόταν τόσο στη μοναξιά όδο στο ότι οι άλλοι γλάροι δε θέλησαν να πιστέψουν στο μεγαλείο της πτήσης που τους περίμενε. Είψαν αρνηθεί ν' ανοίξουν τα μάτια τους και να δουν.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull