Narrowness Quotes

“We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.”
― Booker T. Washington, The Story of My Life and Work

“And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“When love is roaming in our mind, looping in the deepest fringes of our heart, undreamt spaciousness emerges, repealing the constraints of triviality and letting stifling narrowness fade away. While our mindset is besieged by a revolving burst of emotion, our world is ultimately opening up. (Cape of good hope)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If we take the time or courage to find out what people feel and think, and to listen to the heart of their story, we are capable of losing the narrowness of our preconceptions and the nitpicking manipulations in our brain, making us geared up to view the world, openly and with confidence. ("With confidence »)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“You had to be fundamentally stupid, I sometimes thought, to become the sort of academic specialist that hiring committees liked. You had to be thick somehow. You had to block out all the other things in the world to focus on one narrow, particular thing.”
― Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country

“It is not a large world. Relatively even to this world of ours, which has its limits too (as your Highness shall find when you have made the tour of it and are come to the brink of the void beyond), it is a very little speck. There is much good in it; there are many good and true people in it; it has its appointed place. But the evil of it is that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller’s cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun. It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“Goldwater's approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes.”
― Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

“You must give life to have life - without shallowness, without narrowness - with your arms wide open and heart expanded - the more you give life, the more you'll have life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“The idea of race is a myth most foul,
Born of ignorance and narrowness.
Now we live in a different time,
That requires abolition of divisiveness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“Expansion is life, narrowness is death. Universality is life, nationality is death.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“We are all born with narrowness embedded in our neurons. To unlearn that narrowness will take a lifetime. And it is with this act of unlearning our narrowness, that we shall make our surroundings civilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Let go of self-obsession, so that the small you can become the world personified.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Nation without narrowness is a land universal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“Discard anything that makes you narrow, discard anything that separates you from people, discard anything that impairs your growth. Discard traditions that make you narrow, discard scriptures that make you narrow, discard heritage that makes you narrow, discard culture that makes you narrow, discard constitutions, policies and governments that make you narrow. Expansion is the watchword of life, nay, expansion is life, narrowness is death.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Handcrafted Humanity Sonnet 12

Here are some words born of narrowness,
Activist, woke, religious, atheist,
Socialist, communist, capitalist, conservative,
Intellectual, intelligent, classy, elitist,
Educated, learned, well-versed, sound-mind,
Traditional, old-fashioned, spiritual, altruistic,
Empiricist, Existentialist, rationalist, freethinker,
Godly, compassionate, selfless and mystic.
I refuse to be defined by any of them,
None of them can explain my true sentiment.
I may advocate for the good within each of them,
But I refuse to give any of them exclusive endorsement.
All these words are too puny to define my identity.
My name is human, my heart contains entire humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“We stray the narrow way when we stubbornly refuse to discipline ourselves physically, morally, and mentally.”
― John M. Sheehan

“Favoritism is a civilized faculty,
when practiced beyond blood and border.
Problem is when you see nothing at all,
beyond the rim of your family and culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Narrow mind leads to vacant marrow, Without expansion life is hollow.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets