Quotes about Narrowness

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.