Top 100 Quotes About Great Minds
#1. When two great minds work in unison, a great deal is accomplished, but there is usually a lot of noise.
Lloyd A. Green
#2. Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.
Marcel Proust
#4. I'm not a writer, so I don't know what that looks like, but I can only imagine that you get all those great minds in that room, of those particular writers that created the show, and it's going to be great.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#5. Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
#6. We do not learn only from great minds; we learn from everyone, if only we observe and inquire.
C.A. Doxiadis
#7. 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
#8. Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Shakti Gawain
#9. 'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.
John Fletcher
#10. And you realize that it was not those great minds and not those old masters which kept you alive for decades but that it was this one single person whom you loved more than anyone else.
Thomas Bernhard
#11. Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.
J. Nozipo Maraire
#12. There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
Victor Hugo
#13. High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Tryon Edwards
#14. As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#16. And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
Walter Martin
#17. Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by laying the gunpowder, grain by grain. Every important revolution needs both kinds of minds to complete itself.
Steven Johnson
#18. The great minds approaching understanding will admit they continually gain more questions and less answers.
Doug Berry
#19. Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
Petrarch
#20. Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
Eleanor Roosevelt
#21. 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
#22. Great minds seek wisdom.
Average minds seek entertainment.
Small minds seek trouble.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#23. Great minds believe they will succeed.
Average minds doubt they can succeed.
Small minds don't even try to succeed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#26. Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.
Nahum Tate
#27. Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.
Frances Wright
#28. Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#29. But these great minds cannot avoid doing extraordinary things!
Samuel Richardson
#30. To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
John Buchan
#31. 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
#32. I simply feel that now we've so utterly perfected the walkie-talkie to the point where it has become the iPhone, maybe we could turn the great minds that brought us the Nintendo Wii, to, say, getting fresh water to the one billion people on our planet who don't have it.
Colin Beavan
#33. Great minds find beauties and appreciate it. Average minds find commonalities and compare. Small minds find the problems and criticize.
Debasish Mridha
#35. My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#36. A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Jean Rostand
#37. In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments.
Marvin Ammori
#38. You can do a lot and you can partner with great minds to do so much more.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#39. 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
#40. We fill our mental strong-room with these great minds and old masters and resort to them at the crucial moment in our lives;
Thomas Bernhard
#41. Great minds think alike, but lovers think as one.
Pyreglide
#43. Great views are like great minds. They both give you the feeling of eternity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. But these great minds cannot avois doing extraordinary things!
Samuel Richardson
#45. The population is ignorant of intrigues and power games, therefore we believe it easy to manipulate, but it is in fact, far more perceptive than many of our great minds.
Kenize Mourad
#46. 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
#48. Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.
Cary Fukunaga
#49. The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
William Osler
#50. The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by the most rewarding fashion, and the great minds of today increasingly turn to where the money is - which means military matters.
Paul Feyerabend
#51. People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.
Lev S. Vygotsky
#53. Great bodies die but great minds don't die! Inside the tomb of great men lay dead body's but at the library of great men lay the living minds of dead bodies!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#54. Great minds rise above problems.
Great hearts rise above pain.
Great souls rise above temptations.
Great individuals rise above themselves and the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#55. Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
Andre Gide
#56. 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
#57. Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
Mercy Otis Warren
#58. 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
#60. Worldwide travel is not compulsory. Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land. Da Vinci and Beethoven never left Europe. Shakespeare hardly went anywhere at all-certainly not to Elsinore or the coast of Bohemia.
Jan Morris
#61. Great minds think alike-especially when they are female.
Christina Dodd
#62. ... these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity
Elizabeth Cunningham
#63. Great minds birth great ideas.
Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas.
Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#64. As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#65. Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.
John Clayton
#66. If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people.
Adolf Hitler
#67. Small minds know everything. Average minds believe everything. Great minds question everything.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#68. It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.
Erich Fromm
#70. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Henry Thomas Buckle
#72. Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition
Victor Hugo
#73. 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
#74. Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.
Dan Brown
#75. Small minds are usually overcome by misfortune and despair but great minds will try and rise above them each time!
Timothy Pina
#77. Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.
Criss Jami
#78. Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.
Anurag Kashyap
#79. In the silence of night, great minds either unite or die
Katja Michael
#80. Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#81. Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Elbert Hubbard
#82. Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution
Jeremy Aldana
#83. Feeble minds are tamed,great minds always conquer..
I.R. Shankar
#84. How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
John Stuart Mill
#85. Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Jean Rostand
#86. Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.
Scott Adams
#87. My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.
Edward Brooke
#90. Great minds think alike, but creative minds think like no other.
Emma Anderson
#91. Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts.
Amit Ray
#94. Great minds have sought you--lacking someone else.
You have been second always. Tragical?
No. You preferred it to the usual thing
Ezra Pound
#95. Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
#96. 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
#98. Not only was he one of history's greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln was one of history's most devoted readers. Doris Kearns Goodwin writes of Lincoln, "Books became his academy, his college. The printed word united his mind with the great minds of generations past.
Pat Williams
#100. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
