Quotes about Great Minds

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Votes: 4

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. Votes: 4

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Votes: 4

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. Votes: 4

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Votes: 4

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. Votes: 4

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical. Votes: 3

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. Votes: 3

Great minds think alone. Votes: 2

Great minds think alike. Votes: 2

Only great minds can afford a simple style. Votes: 2

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds. Votes: 2

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. Votes: 2

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously. Votes: 2

A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself. Votes: 2

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. Votes: 2

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things. Votes: 2

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. Votes: 2

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. Votes: 2

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In the silence of night, great minds either unite or die Votes: 1

Great minds sink alike, right? Votes: 0

Great actions speak great minds. Votes: 0

Great minds think for themselves. Votes: 0

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects. Votes: 0

Structure builds minds into great Monuments. Votes: 0

Great minds explore,Small minds learn Votes: 0

Danger, the spur of all great minds. Votes: 0

Small minds can never handle great themes. Votes: 0

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds. Votes: 0

Great minds think alike-especially when they are female. Votes: 0

Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds. Votes: 0

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds. Votes: 0

Shoulders can carry great weights; minds, even much greater! Votes: 0

A great empire and little minds go ill together. Votes: 0

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune. Votes: 0

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds. Votes: 0

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. Votes: 0

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Votes: 0

Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds! Votes: 0

There is no place for little minds in a great work Votes: 0

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds. Votes: 0

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. Votes: 0

There are many great minds on earth and not all are human. Votes: 0

Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish. Votes: 0

To expose our minds constantly to ungodly thinking is a great danger. Votes: 0

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them. Votes: 0

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! Votes: 0

Failures and mistakes are definitely the greatest teachers to all great minds. Votes: 0

Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire. Votes: 0

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. Votes: 0

Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution Votes: 0

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. Votes: 0

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. Votes: 0

Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation. Votes: 0

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials. Votes: 0

The great minds approaching understanding will admit they continually gain more questions and less answers. Votes: 0

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas Votes: 0

Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes! Votes: 0

God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands. Votes: 0

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive. Votes: 0

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones? Votes: 0

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds. Votes: 0

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions. Votes: 0

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children. Votes: 0

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. Votes: 0

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern. Votes: 0

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them. Votes: 0

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation Votes: 0

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great. Votes: 0

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them. Votes: 0

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Votes: 0

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books. Votes: 0

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones. Votes: 0

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents. Votes: 0

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause. Votes: 0

If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people. Votes: 0

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. Votes: 0

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you. Votes: 0

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds. Votes: 0

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination. Votes: 0

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Votes: 0

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. Votes: 0

The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them. Votes: 0

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost. Votes: 0

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others. Votes: 0

Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light! Votes: 0

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. Votes: 0

Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas. Votes: 0

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. Votes: 0

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. Votes: 0

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true. Votes: 0

Some of the greatest minds on earth also have a great capacity to remember. Many would prefer to forget their memories of mankind. Votes: 0

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Many times you walk into a room and people have already made up their minds. But it's always good to have something great associated with you. Votes: 0

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. Votes: 0

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers. Votes: 0

. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . . Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech. Votes: 0

The Great Spirit is everywhere; he hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice. Votes: 0

Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God. Votes: 0

The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that. Votes: 0

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity. Votes: 0

Greatest quotes were not from the pencils of great men but from the the tablets of great minds who are willing to lead their minds on the journey of thought. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

... 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0