Great Minds Quotes

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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Great, Small, Minds

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal

Great, Small, Minds

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Elbert Hubbard

Great, Minds, Interested

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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Nothing, Saying

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

Great, Minds, Rise

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
William Ellery Channing

Great, Spiritual, Judge

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.
Jean Rostand

Great, Power, Humanity

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, Great, Live

Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal

Great, Simple, Minds

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Washington Irving

Great, Others, Minds

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Jean Rostand

Great, Truth, Fight

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Shakti Gawain

Great, Nothing, Ambition

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Tryon Edwards

Great, Minds, High

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.
John Clayton

Great, Real, Minds

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
John Buchan

Education, Time, Great

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Great, Power, Revolution

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
Walter Martin

Great, History, Minds

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