Close Minded Quotes

• Being called close-minded by religious people is a bit like being called yellow by a bunch of bananas.

  Pat Condell

  Religious, Yellow, People

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"Take Your God And Shove Him", www.youtube.com. August 21, 2008.

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Fun, Adventure

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

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• By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

  Richard Dawkins

  Funny, Trust, Laughter

  "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". Lecture, BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

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• 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

  Maturity, Mind, Favors

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• There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

  Herbert Spencer

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Science

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  Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.

  Groucho Marx

  Fall, Brain, Open Minded

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• The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

  Irene Joliot-Curie

  Science, Theory, Nobel

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• The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Tolerance, Action, Open Minded

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• I’ve met guys all the time that I’m like, Damn, that’s a good-looking guy, you know?

  Josh Hutcherson

  Guy, Looking Good, Mets

  "Josh Hutcherson, Straight Talker". www.out.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it-and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting.

  Carlo Rubbia

  Art, Science, Reality

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• The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.

  Frank X. Barron

  Science, Creative, Attention

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• It makes me so mad that some people underestimate the wisdom and energy of young people. All because they don't look the way older folks think they should look. I'm working on a song about it. Maybe some of those closed minded people will realize long hair and tattoos don't mean they should be ignored. Close minded people are part of what's wrong with this world.

  Johnny Cash

  Tattoo, Song, Mean

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• I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Views, Tactics, Respect Me

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• Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

  Rachel Caine

  Mind, Facts, Accepting

  Rachel Caine (2007). “Midnight Alley: The Morganville Vampires”, p.52, Penguin

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• So many people are close-minded. They aren't open with themselves. I want to be that punch in the face that says, "Who cares!" The more people try to hide sexuality, the more it's going to be brought up.

  Jeffree Star

  People, Trying, Who Cares

  Source: substreammagazine.com

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• I hope that nothing ever wussifies me to deny my own personal beliefs. Brainwashed wussies have been taught that standing up for yourself and defending your personal point of view makes you a close-minded hate monger. One must also be respectful of dissenting belief while supporting their own.

  Brad Stine

  Hate, Views, Taught

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• We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, brethren! Be careful, teachers!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Teacher, Character, College

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.

  Peter James

  Police, Open Minded, Officers

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of art such as Garden State go untouched is beyond me. It just proves how close-minded America really is, and I refuse to take part in it.

  Zach Braff

  Baby, Art, Winning

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• I would probably list myself as mostly straight. I've met guys all the time that I'm like, Damn, that's a good-looking guy, you know? I've never been, like, Oh, I want to kiss that guy. I really love women. But I think defining yourself as 100% anything is kind of near-sighted and close-minded.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Gay, Kissing, Thinking

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• I'm not approachable by someone who says, "Let's try some drugs," or something like that. I'm absolutely close-minded about that kind of thing. But I'm wide open to anyone who says, "I've been wondering why we're here and where we're going, and I've got a few answers, but I wondered if anything ever happened to you that suggests..." Then they have me, and I become a chatterbox and can just talk away literally for days.

  Richard Bach

  Drug, Trying, Answers

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god.

  Greta Christina

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

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• To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.

  Marilyn Manson

  Church, Close Mindedness

  Ultimate Guitar, 2007.

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• The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma is settled: The government should do good, where it can, whenever it can. That is President Obama's idea of pragmatism and bipartisanship: He's open to all ideas, from either side of the aisle, about how best to expand government and get the state more involved in our lives.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

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• There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.

  Ione Skye

  School, Kids, Conservative

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