Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth. From LearnThat.org. [Mark Twain (1835-1910,) American writer, pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens.]
A brilliant but narrow-minded judge. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"He wasn't narrow-minded and he wasn't parochial.". From Wordnik.com. [Pastor's Influence Recalled] Reference
"You mustn't be narrow-minded, Larkie," Carol argued. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
Nothing could move the obstinate narrow-minded Viceroy. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
She is the most stingy and narrow-minded woman I ever saw. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
Apart from this, he was at once narrow-minded and obstinate. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
"Why, Paul, you are not often either narrow-minded or unjust.". From Wordnik.com. [The Village by the River] Reference
They were much despised by the stricter and more narrow-minded. From Wordnik.com. [A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient)] Reference
He had an immense scorn of the petty narrow-minded points of view. From Wordnik.com. [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference
Okay, more than a snob -- I was arrogant, narrow-minded, and misinformed. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Greenfield: Are For-Profit Colleges Evil?] Reference
Viewed from Britain, the New World can seem pretty narrow-minded these days. From Wordnik.com. [Muslims In Big Sky Country] Reference
Be assured, Monsieur de Camors, I am not a narrow-minded admirer of the past. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
No, man, don't be so narrow-minded, dude, their reality is affecting us as well. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Marty had all the narrow-minded prejudices against foreigners of the inexperienced. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
Those who indulge in them are generally narrow-minded, un-cosmopolite sort of people. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It seems to me that the above law is selfish, cruel, and narrow-minded in the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
She had shown herself to be not only extremely narrow-minded, but quarrelsome as well. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
The great majority of our countrywomen thus grow careworn, narrow-minded, self-absorbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Unfortunately, it has been the views of the narrow-minded that have gotten the most press. From Wordnik.com. [This Is About More Than a Building] Reference
Such oppressive acts by narrow-minded good men were supplemented by the knavery of unscrupulous bad men. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference
No. Each and all of these several cliques are, in common with all cliques, narrow-minded and intolerant. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
In my researches I found that the Royal Academy has been a narrow-minded clique from its very initiation. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
But he was narrow-minded and obstinate, and when he had once determined on a measure nothing could alter him. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
The Parlement, composed of men of the robe (lawyers), was closely allied to the court in narrow-minded bigotry. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
"These people are as narrow-minded and have as much hate in their eyes as the Taliban do in Afghanistan," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Jihad Chic Comes to London] Reference
I asked Mr. Newnes, after a brief discussion on the ridiculous and narrow-minded behaviour of these worthy clerics. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
At its worst, it mires society in negative stereotypes and narrow-minded views of what (and who) is important in America. From Wordnik.com. [Morris W. O'Kelly: Sherri Shepherd: 'I Want to See Some Black Love on TV'] Reference
And the means were meaner than the right admitted; laws were broken and lives ruined in the name of narrow-minded patriotism. From Wordnik.com. [So Long, Soldier] Reference
"Soon the last educated villagers will be gone, leaving an illiterate people in the hands of narrow-minded mullahs," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Where ‘The Land Is on Fire’] Reference
This perception seems particularly narrow-minded when considered against the Obama Administration's YouTube Diplomacy efforts. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Rosen: Ignoring YouTube: Imam Feisal's Flawed Approach to 21st Century "Media"] Reference
New-Englanders, many of them, appear to take pleasure in insisting that they came of a race of narrow-minded, persecuting bigots. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Win or lose, these candidates are making real inroads in spite of fires stoked by bigots, the ill-informed, and the narrow-minded. From Wordnik.com. [Paula Gordon: Taking it to the Streets] Reference
"He was so little and so narrow-minded, and he had no excuse for it either, for he had a good education and he'd been all over the world.". From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
Yes, like Emilio told me, “You know our profession, it tends to be narrow-minded, homophobic and you'd definitely assume transphobic.”. From Wordnik.com. ['It Stuns Me'] Reference
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