Great Minds Quotes - Page 3

• Have you ever noticed that things that don’t kill you make you weaker? And great minds don’t think alike. If they did, the patent office would only have about fifty inventions. I started getting suspicious when I cried over spilt milk and the cashier took it off my bill.” - Wally

  Scott Adams

  Thinking, Office, Mind

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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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• To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Heart, Average, Ideas

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• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Average, Ideas, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.613, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mind, Littles, Holmes

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated)”, p.1434, BookRix

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• Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Mind, Together, Causes

  "Director Cary Fukunaga Talks TRUE DETECTIVE, Making an 8-Hour Film, Future Seasons, BEASTS OF NO NATION, Modernizing Horror with IT, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2014.

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• Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Mind, Excited

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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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• Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.

  J. Nozipo Maraire

  Racism, Judgement, Mind

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• I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

  Erskine Caldwell

  Writing, Thinking, Simple

  Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.51, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Taken, Discovery

  Review of "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre in "Alger Républicain", (p. 5), October 20, 1938.

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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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• Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Mind, Trials, Advantage

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• Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

  Petrarch

  Men, Errors, Mind

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• The great minds approaching understanding will admit they continually gain more questions and less answers.

  Doug Berry

  Understanding, Mind, Answers

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• I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

  Lord Byron

  Atheist, Believe, Mind

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• A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

  Joseph Joubert

  Essence, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.150

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• Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.

  Sena Jeter Naslund

  Heart, Thinking, Color

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• Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Men, Mind, Aliens

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.145, Princeton University Press

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• One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

  Dennis Prager

  College, Profound, Mind

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• A great mind must be androgynous.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mind, Androgynous

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.96

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• Great minds think for themselves.

  Immanuel Kant

  Education, Thinking, Mind

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• The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

  James Branch Cabell

  Life, Taken, Mind

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• The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Life, Mind, Important

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.190

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