Closemindedness Quotes & Sayings

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult. — Philippe Petit

Most disease is psychic occult attack. — Frederick Lenz

Personalization filters serve a kind of invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas, amplifying our desire for things that are familiar in leaving us oblivious to the dangers lurking in the dark territory of the unknown. — Eli Pariser

I'm past 75, I still walk, and I don't dye my hair blond, and I don't touch it up. — Pauline Trigere

Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer. — Nadine Gordimer

Just so. You tried to establish a fact from a lack of evidence. Unless the inquiry has been so exhaustive as to explore every possibility, the lack of evidence should never be used to ground a statement of fact. Unlikelihood certainly, but no more. A prematurely assumed fact blocks further inquiry. — Jonathan Renshaw

I think what both Republicans and Democrats need to do and the leaders on both sides is to recognize that if sequester takes place, it would be disastrous for our national defense and very frankly for a lot of very important domestic programs. They have a responsibility to come together, find the money necessary to de-trigger sequester. — Leon Panetta

But you can't be too careful of these strange new ideas and new things. You must not tamper with them. If you try to understand them, they may entangle and get hold of you, and then where will you be? Hide your mind from them, and hide them from your mind. Stick to the plain common sense of life. There will always be a tomorrow rather like today. At least so far there always has been a fairly similar tomorrow. Once or twice lately there have been jolts ...
Try not to notice these jolts.
'It is no good meeting trouble halfway. — H.G.Wells

Everything takes time, even when time is really hard to take. — Ann Smith

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge. — Fred Wilson

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton — Harold Holzer

He didn't like violence, no matter what he'd told Jessica before. He was good at it, no denying that, but he did not like it. Yes, violence was the closest modern man came to his true primitive self, the closest he came to the intended state of nature, to the Lockean ideal, if you will. And yes, violence was the ultimate test of man, a test of both physical strength and animalistic cunning. But it was still sickening. Man had - in theory anyway - evolved for a reason. In the final analysis, violence was indeed a rush. But so was skydiving without a parachute. — Harlan Coben

So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about. — Cindy Sheehan

It's a once-in-a-lifetime event for all of us, something like this. — Berenice Bejo

I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy. — Augustine Of Hippo

My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky. — Charlaine Harris

No wonder nothing had worked. No one else was him. — Kristan Higgins