Best Great Minds Quotes

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

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

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.

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

a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.

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.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female: and in the man’s brain, the man predominates over the woman, and in the woman’s brain, the woman predominates over the man…If one is a man, still the woman part of the brain must have effect; and a woman also must have intercourse with the man in her. Coleridge perhaps meant this when he said that a great mind is androgynous. It is when this fusion takes place that the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties.

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

The little mind who loves itself, will wr’te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

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

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

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.

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

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

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

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.

Great minds think alone.

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.

The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life’s problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.

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

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.

Great minds think alike.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by laying the gunpowder, grain by grain. Every important revolution needs both kinds of minds to complete itself.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

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.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

A great mind must be androgynous.

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.

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

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