Narrow Quotes

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. (Niels Bohr)
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. View quote
Edmund Waller
The most learned are often the most narrow minded. View quote
William Hazlitt
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. View quote
William Hazlitt
It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye. View quote
J. M. W. Turner
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. View quote
Joseph Addison
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath. View quote
Colette
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. View quote
Booker T. Washington
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. View quote
Florence Nightingale
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives. View quote
Ivo Andrić
Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit. (Franz Kafka)
I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective. View quote
Richard Donner
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. View quote
George Eliot
In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet. View quote
Karen Blixen
Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said. View quote
Matthew Arnold
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed. View quote
William Wordsworth
God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society. View quote
John Ralston Saul
When I look up to the sky between the narrow roofs, it reminds me of you, the one who is far, far away. (Masashi Kishimoto)
The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today. View quote
Nick Mason
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. View quote
Charles Cooley
We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road. View quote
Lars Peter Hansen