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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• 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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• 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 is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

  Wes Fesler

  Parenting, Lazy, Laziness

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• There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Danger, Humiliated

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

  Groucho Marx

  Fall, Brain, Open Minded

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

  James Zogby

  Politician, Danger, Doomed

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

  James Cook

  Religious, Criminals, Danger

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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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• I met so many young girls and even older women who had literally been through so much that I couldn't even imagine. I was maybe a little more closed-minded, and I learned from them never to judge anyone.

  Demi Lovato

  Girl, Judging, Littles

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

  Ray Dalio

  Thinking, Investing, You Think You Know

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• I'm always surprised on my social accounts that people assume that because you have a job in television you don't have a political opinion, or don't have a family, or don't have an interest in the rest of the country. It's just absolutely shocking to me how closed minded some people are.

  Andrew Zimmern

  Country, People, Political

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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• Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open.

  Rick James

  Doe, Facts, Wide

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Mar 25, 2015

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• In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

  Michael Shermer

  Cynical, Principles, Curious

  "What Is Skepticism, Anyway?" by Michael Shermer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out.

  Tucker Max

  Girl, Two, Brain

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• I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Long, People

  Vincent Price (1959). “I Like what I Know: A Visual Autobiography”

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• Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things.

  Henry H. Bauer

  Science, Progress, Different

  Henry H. Bauer (1994). “Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method”, p.76, University of Illinois Press

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