Great Minds Quotes - Page 4

• We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mother, Mind, Knows

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.22, Macmillan

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• To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fate, Two, Evil

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.29, Full Moon Publications

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• Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

  Pietro Aretino

  Anger, Mind, Desire

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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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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• College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.

  Anne Hathaway

  Unique, College, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel that there are great minds up there who would like to see what I can do with an Oscar nomination. I guess many people would change after a nomination in the way they see things. In my case it's really irrelevant in terms of what I do. Still, it was an incredible experience which I will put in my memories, like everything else.

  River Phoenix

  Memories, People, Mind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

  Jacques Barzun

  Yield, Mind, Tragedy

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• The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Inspire, Intellectual

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “Dissertations and Discussions”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses art; it extinguishes every spark of noble ardor and generosity in the breasts of those who are enslaved by it; it makes naturally strong and great minds feeble and little, and triumphs over the ruins of virtue and humanity.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Art, Strong, Ignorance

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Giving, Mind, Bears

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.10

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• Even after seeing so much bad art in the last few years, it still seems possible that one can be led to the right places. I haven't given up hope because there are always great artists, great minds, and great ideas. New ideas are what give you hope. You have to base your opinions on the quality of the ideas in the artworks.

  Diego Cortez

  Art, Giving, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

  Nahum Tate

  Mind, Desire, Cures

  Henry Purcell, Nahum Tate (1978). “Purcell, Didon et Enée”

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• Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Essence, Agony

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• It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Mind, Proof, Worthy

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• There are many great minds on earth and not all are human.

  Anthony Douglas

  Mind, Earth, Humans

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• Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

  Scott Adams

  Science, Thinking, Office

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