Quotes About Average Minds

#1. 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

#2. Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

Socrates

#3. Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#4. The ones who're so upset about everybody not being the same, about competition, about standards of quality, about art objects having 'auras' around them, they're usually people with average abilities and average minds. And below average senses of humor.

Tom Robbins

#5. As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average minds (and hearts) to work that's beyond most people's capacity, and perhaps save a few lives.

Dave DeBronkart

#6. The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. Sublime Minds have noble visions ; Average Minds, by contrast, are trying to conformity.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#8. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Henry Thomas Buckle

#9. Great minds find beauties and appreciate it. Average minds find commonalities and compare. Small minds find the problems and criticize.

Debasish Mridha

#10. A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

Robert Reed

#11. While I do see lots of repetitious writing among authors, that does not apply to all, and certainly not to me. Average minds think alike, but unique minds do not.

Calvin W. Allison

#12. Great minds believe they will succeed.
Average minds doubt they can succeed.
Small minds don't even try to succeed.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. Great minds seek wisdom.
Average minds seek entertainment.
Small minds seek trouble.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

Eleanor Roosevelt

#15. Small minds know everything. Average minds believe everything. Great minds question everything.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

Oscar Wilde

#17. Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.

Mike Tyson

#18. In the end it's up to you - it's about what you see, it's about what you are looking for. If you're expecting Chaos, then you will see chaos, if you're expecting to make money then you will find ways to make money. But you need to be clear about your thoughts.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

#19. You probably should get back out there. You're ignoring your other guests."
"Screw them."
"I'm sure that many of them, you already have.

Julie James

#20. I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

Haile Selassie

#21. Journalism must have been very different before people resolved so many of their conflicts with bullets.

Mira Grant

#22. I got arrested for graffiti. I got arrested - a lot of, like, underage drinking, drunk in public, shoplifting, you know, your various, like, suburban arrests, I guess.

James Franco

#23. The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.

Ashley Montagu

#24. Someone owns trillions and keeps simple. I would.
Someone reads all minds and looks average. I would.
Someone knows the future and doesn't tell. I would.

Toba Beta

#25. I had such a hard time finding great organic and non-toxic items for my daughter.

Soleil Moon Frye

#26. It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

Norman Lear