Closed Mindedness Quotes

“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

“I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.”
― Malcolm Muggeridge

“He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I shall not waste any more words on you," she said coldly. "Your mind is too closed to hear them.”
― Robin Jarvis, The Oaken Throne

“It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.”
― Mark Twain

“A closed country is a dying country... A closed mind is a dying mind.' from a radio broadcast in 1947”
― Edna Ferber

“I laugh at the way some people think graffiti is all selfish tagging and vandalism. Thoughtful street art is like good fiction – it speaks out on behalf of everyone, for us all to see.”
― Carla H. Krueger

“A mind of one logic is the mind of a prison.”
― Lionel Suggs

“The Stupid Stupid people are highly motivated to dismiss any unfamiliar ideas as rapidly as possible so that they can go on clinging to their existing silly, retarded belief systems. These morons specialize in “zingers” – cretinous one-liners that they imagine are definitive refutations, but which are always comically and extravagantly ignorant and ill-informed – accompanied by inevitable ad hominem insults. That’s the way these clowns roll. They are natural-born trolls. Trolling is simply acidic stupidity. Smart people, by complete contrast, are interested in unfamiliar ideas and research and study them.”
― Joe Dixon, Take Them to the Morgue

“Logically, if you grow up here and you are open minded, you go to college and never come back. If you like it here, which means that you are happy living in the same house, with the same people and ideas as the generation before, then you stay. If you stay, you marry someone just like you. It's like inbreeding.”
― G.P. Ching

“You cannot reach a mind that chooses to be closed or is so incapacitated that even if, momentarily, it wanted to integrate properly, it could not. Such a mind lacks the capacity of full focus, and is the proper concern only of a psychotherapist.”
― Ayn Rand, The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers

“Asking antiracists to change their perspective on racism can be as destabilizing as asking racists to change their perspective on the races. Antiracists can be as doctrinaire in their view of racism as racists can be in their view of not-racism. How can antiracists ask racists to open their minds and change when we are closed-minded and unwilling to change?”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Are you open-minded? If not, leave the door open to it.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Ego and shame never allow us to open the doors of our closed mind towards the reasons which might prove us wrong. To safeguard our wrong thinking, we allow our own reasons to safeguard us from not trying anything.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“The saddest thing about "know-it-alls" and/or "closed minded people" is not their ignorance, but that they are basically admitting they have maximized their potential. These people are the antithesis of the expert or master, who as a direct result of their knowledge knows they do not know everything, so strives to learn more.”
― Frank D. Prestia

“An open mind can always stand a closed one, if it has to- by making room for it in the general picture [of the world].
But a closed mind cannot stand it near an open one Without risking immediate and complete destruction in it's own terms.
Can I closed mine there's no more room.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, In the Bone

“An open mind can always stand a closed one, if it has to- by making room for it in the general picture [of the world].
But a closed mind cannot stand it near an open one Without risking immediate and complete destruction in it's own terms.
In a closed mind there's no more room.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, In the Bone