Little Minds Quotes - Page 3

• The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard’s unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible ways of getting to their destination, and it changed its fickle little mind and began calmly telling him which way to proceed as if this had been its idea all along.

  Neal Stephenson

  Gps, Ideas, Two

  Neal Stephenson (2011). “Reamde”, p.179, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Thinking, Mind, Eccentric

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• Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

  Adrian Rogers

  Understanding, Mind, Would Be

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• When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.

  William Gurnall

  Prayer, People, Mind

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• You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and anxiety, tension and worry in the small, little mind will keep the mind from being free, will keep the mind from experiencing its infinite potential, will keep the mind from becoming more powerful on this planet.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Powerful, Worry, Anxiety

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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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• Why do we continue to breed little minds who can find no recompense for their own failures other than to belittle and mock the talents, even the dress, of others? When will everyone realize that we are all equal in the eyes of God?

  Og Mandino

  Eye, Mind, Dresses

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• A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Mind, Littles, Millions

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• So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Baby, Rejection, Mind

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• The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Mind, Littles

  "On Horace Walpole" by Thomas B. Macaulay, October, 1833.

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• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

  Edmund Burke

  Mind, Together, Politics

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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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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• Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Law, Consistency, Mind

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• The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.

  Henri Rousseau

  Respect, Mean, Order

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• Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Mistake, Butterfly

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.160, OUP Oxford

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• We live in a society now where the sexual taboo for children has really passed by the wayside. Any nineyear-old can go into a 7-11 and check out the Playmate of the Month, but you don't want your kids to know about death. You don't want your kids to know about disfigurement. You don't want 'em to know about creepy things because it might warp their little minds.

  Stephen King

  Children, Kids, Creepy

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• 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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Intelligence, Mind

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Light, Darkness

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• Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

  Horace Walpole

  Art, Mind, Lines

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• Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

  Tryon Edwards

  Mind, May, Littles

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1191, Ravenio Books

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• Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

  Honore de Balzac

  Feel Good, Feelings, Mind

  Honore de Balzac (1950). “Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet”

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• The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Employment, Littles

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• Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

  Albert Camus

  Wall, Writing, Experience Yourself

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• Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if thereby they avoid a greater one. If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing.

  Frederick The Great

  Hurt, Blow, People

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