Mediocre Minds Quotes

• Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Courage, Honesty

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• Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Understanding, Mind, Atheism

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 375, 1678.

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• Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Mind, Habit

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• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person may be forty, fifty, seventy years old - that does not matter, that is the physical age. He has been growing old, but he has not been growing up. You should note the distinction. Growing old, every animal does. Growing up, only a few human beings manage.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Growing Up, Animal

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• Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

  "Everybody's political what's what?" by George Bernard Shaw, Chapter XXXVII, (p. 330), 1944.

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• Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Life Changing, People Changing

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• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom suppressed introductory chapter (1926).

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• If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, War, Fate

  "The Mind of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 45), 1955.

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• A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

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• Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Frank Layden

  Soul, Mind, Suffering

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• Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Political, Mind, Encounters

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• What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy and courage we are willing to expend reversing entropy, battling cynicism, suffering and challenging mediocre minds, staring down those who would trample our dreams, taking a stand for magic, and advancing the potential of the human race.

  Dan Pallotta

  Dream, Race, Giving

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• Eat, drink, and be merry is perfectly good in itself; nothing is wrong in it. But it is not enough. Soon you will get tired of it. One cannot just go on eating, drinking, and merrying. Soon the merry-go-round turns into a sorry-go-round - because it is repetitive. Only a very mediocre mind can go on being happy with it.

  Rajneesh

  Sorry, Drinking, Tired

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• I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Responsibility, Fate, Made

  "The Mind of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 45), 1955.

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• Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Sisterhood, Want

  In Quote Magazine 15 June 1958

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• Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Mind, Spirit, Violent

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• Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

  Tom Robbins

  Common Sense, Mind, Mediocrity

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.137, Bantam

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• You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.

  Gilberto Hernandez

  Mind, Encounters, May

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• A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Enthusiasm For Life

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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• Albert Einstein once reported, "Great spirits have always encountered voilent opposition from mediocre minds." If you want to achieve your own greatness, to climb your own mountains, you'll have to use yourself as your first and last consultant.

  Wayne Dyer

  Greatness, Mind, Mountain

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