Closed Minded Quotes

• So one day, in a fit of trying to do something different, I just dyed my hair dark brown and got my first role a week later, after which I thought: 'People are closed-minded, man! Like a different hair colour changes everything!'

  Emma Stone

  Dark, Men, Hair

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• Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

  Ariana Grande

  People, Special, Age

  "Even Performers Like Me Get Bullied" by Ariana Grande, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Work, Creativity, Opportunity

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• The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth.

  David Icke

  Faces, Facing The Truth

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• When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded.

  Tia Carrere

  Hollywood, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

  Scott Adams

  Idiot, Dilbert, Danger

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.439, Penguin

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• Distinguish open-minded people from closed-minded people. Open-minded people seek to learn by asking questions; they realize that what they know is little in relation to what there is to know and recognize that they might be wrong. Closed-minded people always tell you what they know, even if they know hardly anything about the subject being discussed. They are typically made uncomfortable by being around those who know a lot more about a subject, unlike open-minded people who are thrilled by such company.

  Ray Dalio

  Asking Questions, People, Littles

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• There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

  James Zogby

  Politician, Danger, Doomed

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• There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Danger, Humiliated

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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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• Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

  James Cook

  Religious, Criminals, Danger

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• There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

  Wes Fesler

  Parenting, Lazy, Laziness

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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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• 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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• There’s nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.

  Christina Aguilera

  Boys, Danger, Charm

  Song: Candyman, Album: Back to Basics, 2006

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• There is nothing more dangerous than security.

  Francis Walsingham

  Historical, Danger, Chasms

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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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• What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Ignorance, Different, Prejudice

  Source: fierth.com

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• Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in the world. They think that they will wear expensive clothes, makes loads of money, travel a lot and have a rock star for a boyfriend. This never interested me. I didn't want anyone to scream out my name. I wanted to make art, to create an image with a photographer. And yes, I wanted to get out of Clinton, Mississippi - a small town that was so closed-minded you can't even imagine.

  Crystal Renn

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

  Tori Amos

  Inspirational, Dance, Buckets

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• Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

  John Fairclough

  Men, People, Understanding

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• But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to make himself spiritually or rationally destitute or retarded when this corrupts the whole quality of the culture that we all together need and depend on? If anyone wants a cloistered and closed-minded life, an anti-aristic life, let him either go off and live among the wolves-or else join the community of like-minded idiots that (alas) compose and define the basic terms of modern society.

  Kenny Smith

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Men

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• Not being like everyone else is a great thing, but when you're in elementary school, you want people to like you, and kids that age can be so closed-minded. I mean, I went to a little Catholic school in the San Fernando Valley! My life was so different from the other kids'.

  Katy Rose

  School, Mean, Kids

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• I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses the boundaries of traditional - center-right and center-left have much more in common with each other right now than the right does with the center-right, and the left does with the center-left.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Political, Important

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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