Great Minds Quotes
Great Minds Quote of the day
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people.
Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.
Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.
Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.
As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.
Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.
'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.
It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.
Great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.
The great minds approaching understanding will admit they continually gain more questions and less answers.
The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.
Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light!
