Great Minds Quotes - Page 3

• My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

  Edward Brooke

  Race, Parent, Mind

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

  Tryon Edwards

  Inspirational, Character, Mind

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.67, Ravenio Books

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• To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

  John Tillotson

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Mind

  John Tillotson (1714). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: containing fifty four sermons and discourses on several occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith. Being all that were published by His Grace himself and now collected into one volume, to which is added an alphabetical table of the principle matter”, p.391

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• Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

  Brad Friedel

  Jobs, Real, Team

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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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• Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

  Washington Allston

  Mind, Distinction, Objects

  Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.167

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• Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Greatness, Deserving It, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.15

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• The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn't care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Emotional, Thinking, Practice

  Shunryu Suzuki, Mel Weitsman, Michael Wenger (1999). “Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai”, p.30, Univ of California Press

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