#narrow

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport -- in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy." [Quoted in Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience] ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#fighting #foreign-policy #literature #narrow-mindedness #prejudice

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. ↗

— Mary Astell

#education #foundation #ignorance #imitation #lay

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation. ↗

— Angela Davis

#black #certain #class #developed #division

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#i #intolerant #learned #most #narrow-minded

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#field #made #man #mistakes #narrow

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#field #knows #made #mistakes #narrow

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard. ↗

— John Cleese

#close #concept #damn #england #god

The most learned are often the most narrow minded. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#minded #most #narrow #often

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#broadened #brotherhood #into #live #narrowed

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#atrophies #available #becomes #cases #daily