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 EmersonTag: politics truth philosophy prejudice enlightenment prejudices narrow-mindedness convenience closed-mindedness
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 LemTag: humanity mankind self-discovery ignorance aliens discovery space-exploration narrow-mindedness closed-mindedness
A mind of one logic is the mind of a prison.
Lionel SuggsTag: closed-mindedness
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. ChingTag: society-s-increasing-stupidity closed-mindedness inbreeding social-stagnation
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 TwainTag: mind rigidity closed-mindedness
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 MuggeridgeTag: evolution joke credulity gullibility darwin posterity neo-darwinism closed-mindedness theory-of-evolution
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