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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Great minds think alike.
Great minds sink alike, right?
A great mind must be androgynous.
Danger, the spur of all great minds.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
There are many great minds on earth and not all are human.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Thom Browne is, in my opinion, one of the great minds in men's wear.
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.
Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.
We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Imagine if we could create the most just workplace in the world. We would naturally be a magnet for all the great minds out there.
If Uber wants to catch up to Google and be the leader in autonomy, we have to have the best minds. We have to have all the great minds.
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.
In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Over-dependence on finite resources, like oil, ignores the ability of our great minds to develop alternative energy for the masses, and in doing so ignores climate change and sets up our students and workforce for failure by not educating them about the needs of our future.
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.
