Top 95 Quotes About Small Minds
#1. 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
#2. Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.
St. Jerome
#4. Grab your pen! Grab your sword! Eviscerate small minds with pinpoint force of mental might. Victory is in horizon's sight!
A.H. Scott
#5. Small minds know everything. Average minds believe everything. Great minds question everything.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#6. Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.
Sathya Sai Baba
#7. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors. They're junk food. Fatty, but ultimately, terribly unsatisfying.
Kami Garcia
#9. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Henry Thomas Buckle
#10. Small people have small minds, and thus deride big dreamers.
Small people have small hearts, and thus disparage big chancers.
Small people have small souls, and thus disdain big achievers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. Small minds are usually overcome by misfortune and despair but great minds will try and rise above them each time!
Timothy Pina
#12. Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority ...
Marie Corelli
#13. Since Kemal's death, Turkey has been ruled by small minds, unsteady, weak men.
William L. Shirer
#14. Only small minds want always to be right.
Louis XIV
#16. Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart.
Scott Simon
#17. I was just a tattletale for small minds back home.
Peter Watts
#18. Small minds can never handle great themes.
St. Jerome
#19. Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal
#20. The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
Philip Johnson
#22. When confidence is deemed arrogance..
Happiness and joy deemed showing off self..
Strong words deemed mere big talk and rhetoric..
Small minds..only time will prove and show the truth..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#24. Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. " 'Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.
Raymond E. Feist
#26. Devils?" he said, his mind finding its train of thought as his hand found his cigarette lighter. "Devils are superstitions. Products of small minds and even smaller imaginations. There's one word that should be banned from the dictionary - devils. Ha! Now there's a flippant word.
Jason Mott
#27. Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.
Dan Brown
#28. Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.
Loretta Chase
#29. Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
Robert A. Heinlein
#31. Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.
James George Frazer
#33. Great minds seek wisdom.
Average minds seek entertainment.
Small minds seek trouble.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#34. Great minds believe they will succeed.
Average minds doubt they can succeed.
Small minds don't even try to succeed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#35. One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.
Anuj
#36. Consistency is the virtue of small minds, and Spinoza had a great mind - he was inconsistent all over the place.
Jim Holt
#37. Great minds find beauties and appreciate it. Average minds find commonalities and compare. Small minds find the problems and criticize.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.
Jack McDevitt
#39. 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
#40. Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.
Washington Irving
#41. It really is amazing how some young people feel that short stature and small minds are a sign of superiority. I wonder what ever happened to decency and courtesy?
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#42. Small minds are captivated by trifles.
Ovid
#44. The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#45. Children are the only people who can see adults from inside their lives, permitted to observe every small thing, as if their forming minds are incapable of judging what they see, or as if it does not lodge there, somewhere, permanently,
Anna Funder
#46. Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#47. At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds
Dr. V. V. Rao
#48. I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.
Natasha Trethewey
#49. Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?
Robert MacNeil
#50. A sword is sharp, but can conquer the body alone. The tongue is small, but can conquer hearts, minds and souls.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#51. Robert Ingersoll came to [a small Midwest town] to speak ... , and after he had gone the question of the divinity of Christ for months occupied the minds of the citizens.
Sherwood Anderson
#52. If God were small enough for your minds, he wouldn't be big enough for your needs.
Anonymous
#53. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.
Adolf Hitler
#54. Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others
William Gibson
#56. Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?
Pico Iyer
#57. It's fun to be in a small club and to be able to look somebody right in the eye and watch them just freak. Then it's fun to be in front of thousands of people and watch a couple of hundred freaking out of their minds.
Lou Reed
#58. Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#59. Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.
Richard Paul Evans
#60. Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar
Dean Cavanagh
#61. Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.
Jack Ma
#62. We are stuck on the obvious of this world, and it so fills our minds and our beings that there is little room for anything else, even if that "obvious" is merely a small part of what is real.
Van Harden
#63. All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek admittance. Their contribution to science is accordingly very small.
Peter Medawar
#64. Dark and drear, fear and weep
Are the spots where the Goobleys crawl and keep
And their minds are small if they have them at all
And their eyes are BIG!!!
Craig Herbertson
#65. Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#66. The minds of small children are more interested in clockwork trains, jumping in puddles and other important childhood endeavours.
Maxwell Grantly
#67. It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.
G.K. Chesterton
#68. Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.
Fred Allen
#69. The intense media coverage of today's campus shootings presents a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us a chance to think about and reflect on the causes; on the other hand, in a very small minority of unstable minds, the repeated telling of the stories can be interpreted as glamorous.
Matthew Pearl
#70. How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.
Andrew Sean Greer
#71. Our minds are small because they are faithless,' I said to myself.
'If we had faith in God our hearts would share in His greatness and
peace for we should not then be shut up in ourselves, but would walk
abroad in him
George MacDonald
#72. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets.
Patrick Rothfuss
#73. They never tell a lie, not a small fabrication, not a partial truth, nor any gross unreal statement. No lies at all, so they have nothing to hide. They are a group of people who are not afraid to have their minds open.
Marlo Morgan
#74. What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?
Joyce Rachelle
#75. I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.
Howard Zinn
#76. One of the most stinging criticisms made against Christians is that their minds are narrow and their hearts small. This may not be wholly true, but that such a charge can be made at all is sufficient cause for serious heart searching and prayer.
A.W. Tozer
#78. Most of the complexity of a human neuron is devoted to maintaining its life-support functions, not its information-processing capabilities. Ultimately, we will be able to port our mental processes to a more suitable computational substrate. Then our minds won't have to stay so small.
Ray Kurzweil
#79. I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things ... In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#80. People with the smallest minds often have the biggest mouths.
Habeeb Akande
#81. He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.
Victor Hugo
#82. Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Albert Einstein
#84. When you set out to change the world, the job seems insurmountable, but each of us can do his or her small part to effect change. We change the world when we choose to create a world of forgiveness in our own hearts and minds.
Desmond Tutu
#85. The rain pummeled the old Dragon bones as though to provide the rhythm to the song of their mortality, but death was not what they had on their minds - or wasn't love sometimes called the small death?
Cornelia Funke
#86. Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.
J.I. Packer
#87. That one small noise brought back the old days to the children's minds more than anything that had happened yet. All the battles and hunts and feasts came rushing into their heads together.
C.S. Lewis
#88. Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men; ... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#89. It seems to me it would do us all good to act from our heart more often. We'll be surprised how small acts of attention and kindness can release the energy, enthusiasm, and imagination bottled up in our overstressed minds and bodies.
Tim Ryan
#90. Connelly writes, "As long as there is paper, people will write, secretly, in small rooms, in the hidden chambers of their minds, just as people whisper the words they're forbidden to speak aloud." In
Will Schwalbe
#91. To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.
Olga Kurylenko
#92. When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with the small achievements in worldly life.
Tejomayananda
#93. O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?
Dante Alighieri
#94. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.
Patrick Rothfuss
#95. Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.
Patrick Rothfuss
