Great Minds Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Steven Johnson

  Meaningful, Mind, Important

  Steven Johnson (2008). “The Invention of Air: A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, And The Birth Of America”, p.132, Penguin

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• 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.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Mind, Proof, Worthy

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to be otherwise than what we are, we will have ceased to evolve. Evolution has to be lived forward. I say this as one who has stood above the bones of much that has vanished, and at midnight has examined his own face.

  Loren Eiseley

  Journey, Men, Long

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• 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.

  Charles Mackay

  Wise, Past, Men

  Charles MacKay (2011). “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds”, p.534, BookBaby

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

  Anthony Douglas

  Mind, Earth, Humans

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

  Nahum Tate

  Mind, Desire, Cures

  Henry Purcell, Nahum Tate (1978). “Purcell, Didon et Enée”

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• 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.

  Diego Cortez

  Art, Giving, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

  Scott Adams

  Science, Thinking, Office

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• I think Eddie Izzard is one of the brightest minds of our generation. I don't see him as a comedian as much as I see him as a philosopher. I hope I get to work with him on everything until I die, because I think he has a great mind and is a very talented actor.

  Bryan Fuller

  Thinking, Our Generation, Comedian

  "Bryan Fuller walks us through Hannibal's debut season (2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 24, 2013.

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• Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Essence, Agony

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• Danger, the spur of all great minds.

  George Chapman

  Mind, Spurs, Danger

  The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois act 5, sc. 1 (1613)

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• Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Mind, Literature, Littles

  Thousand and One Epigrams (1911) p. 133

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• Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Average, Mind, Brain

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook K", K 39), (1789-1793).

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• The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by the most rewarding fashion, and the great minds of today increasingly turn to where the money is - which means military matters.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Running, Fashion, Military

  Paul Feyerabend, Paul K. Feyerabend (1987). “Farewell to Reason”, p.102, Verso

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• 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.

  William Ellery Channing

  Spiritual, Judging, Mind

  William Ellery Channing (1840). “Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community”, p.35

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• 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.

  William Osler

  Teaching, Race, Mind

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.340, Duke University Press

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• Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

  Shakti Gawain

  Ambition, Idols, Wings

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• 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.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Greatness, Mind, Pay

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• It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

  Erich Fromm

  Destiny, Order, Years

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.40, Lantern Books

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• Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Soul, Darkness

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7026, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

  Ken Robinson

  School, Mind, Sometimes

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.146, Penguin

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• It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Order, People

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• In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Men, Names

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.796, Bantam

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

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Greatness, Mind

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• Great minds sink alike, right?

  Jay McInerney

  Mind

  Jay McInerney (1989). “Story of My Life”

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