Average Minds Quotes

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Average, Ideas, People

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

Benjamin Franklin

Thinking, Average, Ideas

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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.

Henry Thomas Buckle

Men, Average, Order

"Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal and Social Life in Edinburgh and London, 1850-1900". Book by Charles Stewart, p. 33, 1901.

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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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.

Emma Goldman

Teacher, Average, Parent

Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

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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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Confused, Average, Tolerance

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The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist. The time is past when we can be content with our social fabric merely because it is "ordained by divine right," or by the majesty of the law.

Emma Goldman

Past, Average, Law

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.63, 谷月社

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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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Heart, Average, Ideas

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

Robert Reed

Clever, Average, Mind

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Being Yourself, Philosophy, Inspiration

Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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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.

Christian D. Larson

Thinking, Average, Feelings

"The Optimist Creed".

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Average, People, Focus

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

John Philip Sousa

Mean, Average, Mind

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Strength, Encouraging

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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Leadership, Team

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The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Being Yourself, Responsibility, Personal Accountability

Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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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.

Ezra Pound

Men, Average, Years

Ezra Pound (2016). “Early Poems”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

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Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Average, Ideas, People

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.613, St. Martin's Griffin

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When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Eleanor Roosevelt

Strong Women, Courage, Fear

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To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

Susan B. Anthony

Successful, Average, Ideas

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It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.

Albert Einstein

Squares, Light, Average

"Atomic Physics" by the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd, 1948.

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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.

Franz Grillparzer

Average, Two, Mind

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Life is too short to worry about anything

Eric Davis

Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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