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

Keep your big goals away from small minds.

Don’t let small minded people dictate how you should look and be free.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

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

One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.

I don’t think I have rebelled against Latina culture. I have rebelled against those who try to make me warm tortillas for my brothers when they can warm them for themselves, I have rebelled against a patriarchal religion. I rebel against small mindedness in all ways and in every situation but those things are not an intrinsic part of Latina culture and I will fight tooth and nail against anyone who tries to make me feel like I’m less Xicana for not embracing the small-mindedness.

Small things affects small minds.

On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me

I do not like to call myself a Liberal, because there is so much that is wrong with liberalism. I also do not like to call my a Conservative for exactly the same reason. The fact that the theater of conservativism today seems to be such a haven for such an abundance of small minded, non-thinking, irrationalists is however making it very difficult for me to not adopt a harder stance.

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don’t understand.

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

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

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.

Small things amuse small minds.

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.

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

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

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

Things aren’t what they used to be’ is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.

Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don’t matter; they’re just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it’s warm and that it beats through a loving heart.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

You can’t tell big dreams to small minded people.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

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