12 Quotes About Close Mindedness

When we try to dictate what others think and believe, we become hypocrites and close-minded. This list of the best quotes about being close-minded is full of wisdom and understanding that can help you change and open your eyes, even if it takes time. Some people may not like what you say or do, but you must accept them as they are.

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot,...
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It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about. Criss Jami
Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice...
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Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice. Criss Jami
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them...
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. Isaac Asimov
It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either...
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It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows. Criss Jami
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The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong. Suzy Kassem
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God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool kids and never for those upright and uptight religious people everybody hates. Criss Jami
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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. Moonshine Noire
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Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts. Eric Hirzel
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Being different will always threaten the institution of understanding of a closed mind. However, evolution is built on difference, changing and the concept of thinking outside the box. Live to be your own unique brand, without apology. Shannon L. Alder
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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? Ashly Lorenzana
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One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people. Criss Jami