Top 35 Narrow-Minded Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Narrow-Minded Quotes from famous people such as Edmund White, Geoff Dyer, Gza, Nouriel Roubini, Paul Bloom, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really

The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that’s totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you’re just repressing something.
Edmund White
Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.
Geoff Dyer
It’s gonna sound so boring to most people. There have been times when I’ve been told, ‘Oh, you’re doing an album about physics? I hope it’s not boring.’ They don’t get the idea. Because rappers are so one-dimensional, so narrow-minded, it comes off corny.
Gza
For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don’t understand geopolitics? People think economists just deal with spreadsheets and charts. That’s a narrow-minded caricature.
Nouriel Roubini
Empathy has some unfortunate features – it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We’re often at our best when we’re smart enough not to rely on it.
Paul Bloom
When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you’re narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn’t work.
Richard Donner
I had a very narrow-minded view on what was pretty and what wasn’t. I automatically thought that tanned was attractive.
Nicola Roberts
With the last couple of Pantera records, we kept getting more and more narrow-minded because of Phil. He didn’t want to experiment or take any chances, and it was like being in a tube that was getting to be so small you couldn’t even breathe. Personally, I think the dude was afraid of success.
Vinnie Paul
My dad is this typical orthodox, narrow-minded Punjabi man in front of whom you can’t even utter the word called ‘boyfriend.’
Parineeti Chopra
Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can’t wait to help break the shackles.
Nargis Fakhri
The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.
Genesis P-Orridge
Your movie becomes much more narrow-minded when you have like-minded department heads. Whereas if you can surround yourself with people who have been a mother before, been a grandmother before, you get a much broader and wide-reaching swath of human emotions.
Rachel Morrison
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
Bob Brown
I loved the banter with the fans and the thought I was giving something back to the people who support me. But then you get people telling me to go and play for Africa. What do they mean by that? It’s so narrow-minded and it’s hard to take.
Micah Richards
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
Aharon Appelfeld
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
James D. Watson
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
Everybody that’s living in this earth is living in a situation. It’s not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.
Mike Epps
I was very much a child of Tumblr. I did a lot of my personal education into what intersectional feminism is on Tumblr. The Internet is a great tool for children who are raised in very narrow-minded towns.
Ashnikko
The British in South Africa always portrayed themselves as more enlightened and tolerant than the ‘narrow-minded’, ‘intolerant’ Boers.
Kwasi Kwarteng
My parents’ parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.
Toby Stephens
Im at the point now where if someone thinks of me that way or boxes me in to be being just the child of, I just think that theyre being narrow-minded and not looking at the fact that Im very different from them and dont work with them.
Miles Robbins
When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It’s the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don’t learn anything about the world.
Edmund White
Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa – wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
J. M. Coetzee
When it comes to talking about beating certain teams, we can be narrow-minded when we need to look at the bigger picture.
Alun Wyn Jones
I think to put someone in a box is somewhat narrow-minded.
Mase
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
Vincent Van Gogh
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
Marjane Satrapi
Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I’m narrow-minded and a purist. I’d never mess with it.
Kim Shattuck
I think Peter King… he’s kind of narrow-minded.
Joey Chestnut
When we blame all Muslims, all Syrians, or all members

When we blame all Muslims, all Syrians, or all members of any other group because of the actions of individuals, we fall into the trap of asserting collective guilt. We empower the narrow-minded ideology that we are trying to defeat.
Samantha Power
I had tried to go to college, and I didn’t really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus – I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.
Bruce Springsteen
I’m not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say ‘yes’ because there are narrow-minded people that won’t look past the logo and ‘no’ because ‘American Idol’ put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without ‘Idol.’
Bo Bice
I used to always wear jeans, T-shirts and tracksuits because I was narrow-minded about fashion.
Nicola Roberts