27 Quotes About Close-mindedness
- Author Benjamin Franklin
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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- Author Ashly Lorenzana
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A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery...don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me?
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- Author Steven Erikson
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People who make up their minds about something never listen to advice - especially when it's to the contrary.
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- Author Moonshine Noire
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...few truly understood how disheartening it was to be cut off from worlds so strange and distant they remained to us fantasies rather than distant realities, too surreal and foreign to be touched. Their minds were fixated on what they knew to be real, unable to create the atmospheres of the nebulous realms that lay just beyond our reach, just beyond the dimming horizon, our celestial limits.
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- Author Milan Kundera
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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.
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- Author Ken Ilgunas
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... But these skeptics are only selectively skeptical. They think themselves enlightened for resisting all this new proof and remaining steadfast in mistrusting anything that someone else says. But it is a false enlightenment to accept only those ideas that align with one's worldview and reject those that don't.
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- Author Eric Hirzel
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Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.
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- Author Eric Hirzel
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One’s opinion should only be as strong as one’s knowledge on the matter.
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- Author Eric Hirzel
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The strength of one's opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter.
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