109 Narrow Quotes
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Famous Narrow Quotes
He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes. — Black Elk
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. — George Eliot
One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely. — Mort Sahl
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. — Vernon Grounds
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. — Henri Frederic Amiel
A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive. — Tejomayananda
The most learned are often the most narrow minded. — William Hazlitt
They should make risky and narrow predictions. — Naval Ravikant
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky. — Henry Ward Beecher
Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service. — Sathya Sai Baba
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. — Henry David Thoreau
Focus like a laser, not a flashlight — Michael Jordan
If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower. — Leonard Ravenhill
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. — Francois FeNelon
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small. — Donald Rumsfeld
Short Narrow Quotes
- How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper. — Kahlil Gibran
- We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness. — Booker T. Washington
- I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length. — Avicenna
- Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it. — Mason Cooley
- An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. — Neils Bohr
- America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds. — Ernest Hemingway
- We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. — Lyndon B. Johnson
- Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain
- We need to narrow the digital divide, both among APEC member economies and domestically. — Joko Widodo
- Finally, the predictions that it makes should be narrow and precise, and they should be risky. — Naval Ravikant
The Road Is Narrow Quotes
Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road. — Bob Marshall
In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way. — Neal A. Maxwell
The road of truth is broad; set the mind on it, and you feel expansive openness and broad clarity. The road of human desires is narrow; set foot on it, and you see brambles and mire before you. — Zicheng Hong
John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man. — Henry Ward Beecher
Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. Mathew 7:13-14 — Bible
Maddy: "Um.....William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I don't own a gun yet — Janet Chapman
The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines. — Kevin O'Leary
The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things. — John of the Cross
The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Narrow Path Quotes
To this end, we should help and support one another and strive for peace and union among ourselves. This is the wine that cheers and strengthens travelers along the narrow path of Jesus Christ. — Vincent de Paul
Never give up doesn’t mean keep doing the thing that’s failing. It means don’t get locked into one narrow path and stay open to broadening your goals. — Adam Grant
The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing. — Robert Southwell
When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied as they make the journey. — Neal A. Maxwell
Jesus went before us on the narrow path along which He beckons us to follow Him. — Rose Philippine Duchesne
On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut. — Neal A. Maxwell
When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'. — David Bronstein
wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation! — Eric Jerome Dickey
Not only men, but also women, the weaker sex, in going by the narrow path of Christ have received for themselves the Kingdom of Heaven. For there is neither male nor female, but everyone receives his own reward according to his own labor. — Ephrem the Syrian
Look up, look up, and let your faith continually increase. Let this faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through the gates of the city into the great beyond, the wide, unbounded future of glory that is for the redeemed. — Ellen G. White
Narrow Streets Quotes
You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets. — Glen Campbell
It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun. — Henry Ward Beecher
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague. — Thomas Malthus
How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and the heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, How beautiful is the rain! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first. — Terry Pratchett
Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor. — Emilio Estevez
I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements, which seemed at any moment capable of falling together, closing this alleyway under indifferent stars like a seam. — Anne Rice
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. — Stephen Gardiner
As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers — Virginia Woolf
By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States. — Paul Goldberger
Straight And Narrow Quotes
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures. — William Penn
People think of my entire image as a kid who lives a straight and narrow life, so I can feel myself not being able to act comfortably. I've been thinking that I want to go through some different life experiences and have been learning a lot while living with my other members. — Seohyun
We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction. — Joshua Harris
The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations. — Alphonsus Liguori
There is no traffic congestion on the straight and narrow path. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life. — William Beveridge
Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow. — Barry McGuigan
Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path. — Tommy Lasorda
Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD. — Joe Rogan
The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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 Black Elk |
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 George Eliot |
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 Mort Sahl |
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 Henri Frederic Amiel |
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 William Hazlitt |
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More Narrow Quotes
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. — Booker T. Washington
I felt free, once I realized i was never going to fit the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit in. — Ashley Graham
Don't become too narrow. Live fully. Meet all kinds of people. You'll learn something from everyone. Follow what you feel in your heart. — Yuri Kochiyama
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. — Mark Twain
If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose. — Sri Aurobindo
It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind. — W. E. B. Du Bois
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more. — Darcey Bussell
As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution. — Andy Borowitz
Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind — Francis Bacon
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems. — Barbara Fredrickson
Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind. — Bhagat Singh
It follows from this that time management broadly defined should be everyone’s chief concern. Arguably time management is all life is, yet the modern discipline known as time management - like its hipper cousin, productivity - is a depressingly, narrow minded affair focused on how to crank through as many work tasks as possible, or on devising the perfect morning routine, or in cooking all your dinners for the week in one big batch on Sundays. These things matter to some extent, no doubt, but they’re hardly all that matters. The world is bursting with wonder, and yet it’s the rare productivity guru, who seems to have considered the possibility that the ultimate point of all our frenetic doing, might be to experience more of that wonder. — Oliver Burkeman
There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. — Matthew Henson
To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it. — Pierre de Fermat
Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land. — Lester B. Pearson
If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes. — L. David Mech
Resist the desire to have an opinion on everything. Your expertise is narrower than you think and the world needs more signal, not more noise. — Chris Williamson
Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition — Henry Mintzberg
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls. — Charley Pride
A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body. — Alexander Lowen
With original cryptography, you are just trying to secure one narrow thing - say, communications - and you are trying to secure it from a third party. But you can't secure it from the party you are talking to if they forward your email; it doesn't matter how well your email is encrypted. — Nick Szabo
Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection. — Hermann Weyl
We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives. — Charles Hamilton Houston
Spain is struggling, and has always struggled because of its geography. Its narrow coastal plains have poor soil, and access to markets is hindered internally by its short rivers and a highland plateau surrounded by mountain ranges. It was left behind after the Second World War, as under the Franco dictatorship it was politically frozen out of much of modern Europe. The newly democratic Spain joined the EU in 1986. By the 1990s, it had begun to catch up with the rest of Western Europe, but its inherent geographic and financial weaknesses continue to hold it back and have intensified the problems of overspending and loose central fiscal control, making it among the countries hit worst by the ’08 economic crisis. — Tim Marshall
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. — David Lynch
I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me. — Seve Ballesteros
The narrow conception of happiness that most of us have by default is something we’re tying to defend against all of the other things in life that are threatening to undermine it. The one obvious point is that it’s not a safe play. It’s perpetually under threat. Any joy you can feel, by virtue of it having arisen, based on some causes and conditions, is going to pass away. — Peter Attia
Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking. — Jane Austen
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality. — Nhat Hanh
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