Small Minds Quotes - Page 2

• Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

  Washington Irving

  Mind, Overcoming, Greater

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• 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.

  Kami Garcia

  Mind, Giants, Towns

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• Small minds are captivated by trifles.

  Ovid

  Mind, Trifles, Captivated

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• Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

  Tori Amos

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Tonight

  "Tori Amos on Lauren Bacall, religion, and cleaning latrines". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. March 19, 2015.

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• Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

  Loretta Chase

  Mind, Occupation, Affair

  Loretta Chase (2006). “Lord Perfect”, p.67, Penguin

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• 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.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Mind, Earth

  "Interview with Lauren Bacall". "CNN Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 6, 2005.

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• 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.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Thinking, Wind, Miracle

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silly, Science, Political

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• Small things affects small minds.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mind, Small Things

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• A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

  Alexander Cannon

  Intellectual, Intelligence, Mind

  Alexander Cannon (2012). “The Invisible Influence”, p.6, David & Charles

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• Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Ideas, Mind, Use

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• 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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Jealous, Men, Law

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• Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mind, Division, Lines

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Team

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• Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Light, Wind, Mind

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• 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.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Use, Spots

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• 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.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Practice, Mind, Purpose

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Self, Mind, Inquiry

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• Small minds can never handle great themes.

  St. Jerome

  Mind, Theme, Handle

  "Letter 60" by Saint Jerome,

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• 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.

  A. Powell Davies

  Heart, Character, Mind

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• When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Hair, Mind

  "Maya Angelou: How I Write". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

  Terence McKenna

  Consistency, Mind

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• A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Writing, Wine, Glasses

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume I; lecture 3: "The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, 1964.

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• Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Consistency, Mind, Foolish

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• 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.

  Derek R. Audette

  Thinking, Politics, Today

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