Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.
I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors.
Small minds are captivated by trifles.
Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.
Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.
Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.
I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being alive is a pleasure and a miracle. They feel like moments when the shutters of the mind are open so I can look out. It also feels as if those same shutters have no hooks to fix them in an open position. One small wind and bang-they slam shut.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Small things affects small minds.
A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.
Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves.
Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.
The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.
How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who am I? This spirit of self-inquiry can awaken something inside you.
Small minds can never handle great themes.
You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!
Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
I do not like to call myself a Liberal, because there is so much that is wrong with liberalism. I also do not like to call my a Conservative for exactly the same reason. The fact that the theater of conservativism today seems to be such a haven for such an abundance of small minded, non-thinking, irrationalists is however making it very difficult for me to not adopt a harder stance.
His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.
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