Best Average Minds Quotes

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

Life is too short to worry about anything

Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.

There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something that will suggest a new line of thinking and feeling. The master mind, however, can change his thought whenever he so desires. A change of scene is not necessary, because such a mind is not controlled from without. A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.