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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. -- Washington Irving
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. -- Elbert Hubbard
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. -- Jean Rostand
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. -- Blaise Pascal
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. -- Washington Irving
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. -- John Buchan
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
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. -- Tryon Edwards
Great minds think alone. -- Wiz Khalifa
Great minds think alike. -- Simone Elkeles
Only great minds can afford a simple style. -- Stendhal
Great minds are always feared by lesser minds. -- Dan Brown
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. -- Aristotle
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself. -- William Hazlitt
A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. -- Alexander Cannon
A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things. -- Plato
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. -- Alan Bradley
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. -- Anna Letitia Barbauld
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. -- Shakti Gawain
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 minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness. -- Guy de Maupassant
Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one. -- Wallace D. Wattles
Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi. -- Anurag Kashyap
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
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 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
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
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.
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. -- Paul Zane Pilzer
There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago. -- John Maynard Keynes
In the silence of night, great minds either unite or die -- Katja Michael
Great minds sink alike, right? -- Jay McInerney
Great actions speak great minds. -- John Fletcher
Great minds think for themselves. -- Immanuel Kant
Small minds cannot grasp great subjects. -- St. Jerome
Structure builds minds into great Monuments. -- Robert M. Hensel
Great minds explore,Small minds learn -- Abhinav Gaur
Danger, the spur of all great minds. -- George Chapman
Small minds can never handle great themes. -- St. Jerome
Poetry is the morning dream of great minds. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Great minds think alike-especially when they are female. -- Christina Dodd
Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstein
A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds. -- Max McKeown
Shoulders can carry great weights; minds, even much greater! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A great empire and little minds go ill together. -- Edmund Burke
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune. -- Honore de Balzac
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds. -- Petrarch
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. -- Henry Fielding
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstein
Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds! -- Seneca
There is no place for little minds in a great work -- Manly Hall
Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds. -- Marcel Proust
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. -- Alexander Graham Bell
There are many great minds on earth and not all are human. -- Anthony Douglas
Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
To expose our minds constantly to ungodly thinking is a great danger. -- Alistair Begg
Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them. -- Criss Jami
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! -- Matthew Arnold
Failures and mistakes are definitely the greatest teachers to all great minds. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire. -- Nahum Tate
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution -- Jeremy Aldana
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. -- Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. -- Samuel Johnson
Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials. -- Mercy Otis Warren
The great minds approaching understanding will admit they continually gain more questions and less answers. -- Doug Berry
Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands. -- J. G. Holland
The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive. -- Claude Bernard
Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones? -- Onyi Anyado
Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds. -- Cary Fukunaga
Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions. -- Scott Adams
Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children. -- Herbert Read
I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. -- Mel Brooks
'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern. -- John Fletcher
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation -- H. L. Mencken
It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. -- Edmund Burke
The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones. -- Cab Calloway
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents. -- Edward Brooke
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause. -- Ben Jonson
If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people. -- Adolf Hitler
Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. -- James G. Frazer
It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you. -- Antonia Thomas
Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds. -- J. Nozipo Maraire
This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination. -- Neal Stephenson
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. -- James G. Frazer
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them. -- Joseph Henry
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost. -- James Martineau
But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others. -- Libba Bray
Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas. -- Benjamin Franklin
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true. -- Catharine Beecher
Some of the greatest minds on earth also have a great capacity to remember. Many would prefer to forget their memories of mankind. -- Anthony Douglas
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds? -- John Stuart Mill
Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago. -- Samuel Smiles
I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them. -- Joe Rogan
I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great. -- Mila Kunis
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds. -- Garrett Fort
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. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. -- Milton Friedman
We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around. -- Ryan White
Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting. -- Marcus Buckingham
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. -- Friedrich Schiller
The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries. -- Claude Bernard
One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds. -- Zack de la Rocha

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