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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

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

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

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.

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

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

To a great mind, nothing is little,’ remarked Holmes, sententiously.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

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

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

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

Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

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.

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it’s easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . . No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action, and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and credulity.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

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.

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

I’m not a writer, so I don’t know what that looks like, but I can only imagine that you get all those great minds in that room, of those particular writers that created the show, and it’s going to be great.

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

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.

Great minds think alike-especially when they are female.

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.

A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.