Great Minds Quotes

• Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational, Positive, Meaningful

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Amit Ray

  Mind, Bigs, Small Minds

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

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Washington Irving (2014). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.181, Penguin

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• Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Attitude, Hard Times

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

  Diane Ravitch

  Education, Intelligent, Shining

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• Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't make them all yourself.

  Usher

  Strong Women, Funny Inspirational, Mistake

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• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Silence, Sublime, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.251

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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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  Great minds think alone.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Wise, Meaningful, Wisdom

  Twitter post from Aug 4, 2011

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• The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

  Robert Browning

  Mind, Knows, Gentleness

  Robert Browning, Charlotte Endymion Porter, Helen Archibald Clarke (1898). “Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau”

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• A great mind becomes a great fortune.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Mind, Fortune

  "De Clementia". Book by Seneca the Younger,

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• It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

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

  Lydia M. Child

  Mind, Littles, Little Things

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• Only great minds can afford a simple style.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Simple, Simplicity

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Use, Littles

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Words Of Wisdom, Mind, Atheism

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

  Criss Jami

  Thinking, Mind, Greater

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.20, Criss Jami

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Upset, Mind, Stressed

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

  Alan Bradley

  Stupidity, Mind, Demand

  Alan Bradley (2014). “The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.74, Delacorte Press

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• 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.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Talking, Mind, Saying Nothing

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• A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, Looks, Forget

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.547

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