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Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
Sep 17, 2025
Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.
a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.
Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.
Even after seeing so much bad art in the last few years, it still seems possible that one can be led to the right places. I haven't given up hope because there are always great artists, great minds, and great ideas. New ideas are what give you hope. You have to base your opinions on the quality of the ideas in the artworks.
I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.
The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.
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.
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.
It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed, they have come to regard economic theory in precisely the same way the ancient philosophers viewed the heavens - as the key to understanding and controlling our fate.
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.
Danger, the spur of all great minds.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires.
A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
I think Eddie Izzard is one of the brightest minds of our generation. I don't see him as a comedian as much as I see him as a philosopher. I hope I get to work with him on everything until I die, because I think he has a great mind and is a very talented actor.
Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.
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.
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.
Have you ever noticed that things that don’t kill you make you weaker? And great minds don’t think alike. If they did, the patent office would only have about fifty inventions. I started getting suspicious when I cried over spilt milk and the cashier took it off my bill.” - Wally
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.
... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.
I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed, which was basically anybody over the age of 30, "One of the great minds of the 12th century", and one day I thought, "I don't know anything about the 12 century." So I started buying books, reading about it, and I discovered it was a period of great flowering, it was a Renaissance before what we think is the Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century.
Worldwide travel is not compulsory. Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land. Da Vinci and Beethoven never left Europe. Shakespeare hardly went anywhere at all-certainly not to Elsinore or the coast of Bohemia.
Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box
Great minds think alone.
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.
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.