Great Minds Quotes - Page 2

• Great minds think alike.

  Simone Elkeles

  Thinking, Mind

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  Quiet people have the loudest minds.

  Stephen Hawking

  Quiet People, Fearless, Mind

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• A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

  Jean Rostand

  Heart, Power, Humanity

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Giving, Mind, Stills

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• Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Ordinary Extraordinary, Intelligence

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• Its very important to me to be respected by true talented artists and great minds than by the masses who need to be told how to think. Its more important for me to do things that are spiritually rewarding because that wealth is what makes me feel alive. I do not touch projects that do not yield personal fulfillment, or put me in a field with talent that is over-measured. You wont find me where there is no Truth. And Im not one to jump on any bandwagons or join a gold rush without a purpose. Id rather create my own projects and grow my own fields.

  Suzy Kassem

  Artist, Thinking, Yield

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• A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Mind, Sailor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.13

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• Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?

  Kelly Nelson

  Anger, Mind, Brilliant

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• Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mind, Virtue, Misfortunes

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• There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Book, Thinking, Mind

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• It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

  Seneca the Elder

  Greatness, Mind, Excess

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• The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.

  John Dryden

  Generosity, Secret, Mind

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes”, p.429

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Fighting, Mind

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?

  Meredith Belbin

  Teamwork, Mind, Team Building

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• The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.

  Jean Racine

  Feelings, Mind, Lasts

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• Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

  Andre Gide

  Effort, Mind, Genius

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.280, Routledge

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• To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

  John Buchan

  Education, Mind, Kind

  1940 Memory Hold-the-Door, ch.2.

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• It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mistake, Power, Order

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.88

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• Great actions speak great minds.

  John Fletcher

  Mind, Action, Speak

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Mr. Seward, Sidrach Simpson (1750). “The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: In Ten Volumes. Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.133

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• A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Grief, Compassion, Mind

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• If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, People, Mind

  Adolf Hitler “Mein Kampf (English version): My Struggle Full English version”, Adolf Hitler

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• Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

  James C. Collins

  Opportunity, Mind Your Own Business, Way

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• Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

  Marcel Proust

  Mind, Flotsam, Masterpiece

  Marcel Proust (1958). “By Way of Sainte-Beuve: (Contre Sainte-Beuve)”

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• 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.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Order, People

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