“A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Tour to the Hebrides, Sept. 30, 1773
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
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“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
Booker T. Washington book Up from Slavery
Variant: I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them. This statement was quoted in Charm and Courtesy in Conversation (1904) by Frances Bennett Callaway, p. 153 as "I permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." It has also often been paraphrased in various other ways: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
Source: Up from Slavery
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
As quoted in Forever Yours (1990) by Martha Vicinus and Bea Nergaard , p. 275. Letter, c. 1867, to the scholar Benjamin Jowett.
“You make very narrow distinctions.”
Jack Vance book Night Lamp
Source: Night Lamp (1996), Chapter 13, section 7 (p. 230)
Context: “Of course! That is the nature of clear thinking.”
Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist
Spacetime Tsunami http://www.deoxy.org/t_sunami.htm, Interview with Carla Sinclair, bOING bOING #10. <br class="br">Variant: I think people have a very narrow conception of what is possible with reality, that we're surrounded by the howling abyss of the unknowable and nobody knows what's out there. <br class="br">Context: I think that people don't understand. As the Firesign Theater used to say, 'Everything you know is wrong.' But that is a very liberating understanding, because if everything you know is wrong, then all the problems you thought were insoluble can be framed differently. And there's a way to take the world apart and put it back unrecognizably. We don't really understand what consciousness is at the really deep levels. With some of the tryptamine hallucinogens, you see into possibilities where questions like, 'are you alive?' 'are you dead?' 'are you you?' seem to have been transcended. I think people have a very narrow conception of what is possible with reality, that we're surrounded by the howling abyss of the unknowable and nobody knows what's out there.
Henry George book Progress and Poverty
Book I, Ch. 2
Progress and Poverty (1879)
Context: It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of things, but the bringing of them to the consumer. The merchant or storekeeper is thus as truly a producer as is the manufacturer, or farmer, and his stock or capital is as much devoted to production as is theirs.
Robertson Davies book A Voice from the Attic
A Voice from the Attic (1960)
