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Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.


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WASHINGTON IRVING Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
WASHINGTON IRVING Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
WASHINGTON IRVING Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
WASHINGTON IRVING Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
ELBERT HUBBARD Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.
DAN BROWN Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace
ELBERT HUBBARD Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts.
AMIT RAY Greater minds will rule over lesser minds.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A great mind is not sharpened by consorting with lesser minds.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Great minds have no refuge; the world belongs to them.
KRISTIAN GOLDMUND AUMANN Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
BLAISE PASCAL Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events,small minds discuss people.
HYMAN RICKOVER Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds ... discuss ideas. Average minds ... discuss events. Small minds ... discuss people.
UNKNOWN Great minds discuss ideas, Average minds discuss events, Simple minds discuss people.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roose...
KATHY COLLINS Great minds
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT But these great minds cannot avois doing extraordinary things!
SAMUEL RICHARDSON But these great minds cannot avoid doing extraordinary things!
SAMUEL RICHARDSON Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Every great idea always have mediocre minds to confront.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Great minds find beauties and appreciate it. Average minds find commonalities and compare. Small min...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Great minds think alike.
ANON. Great minds think alike.
ANONYMOUS Great minds think alike.
PROVERB Little boys have amazing minds.
FERDINAND MARCOS To get to take them out was great. That's a snapshot they'll always have in their minds.
BRUCE WEBER Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
C C COLTON To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
JOHN BUCHAN Great minds don't think alike, for that is why they are great
DEREK WEIDL Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution
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LUIS IBARRA Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.
CRISS JAMI There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
JEAN ROSTAND Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ.
ANONYMOUS High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
TRYON EDWARDS Great views are like great minds. They both give you the feeling of eternity!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
JERRY MARTIN Danger, the spur of all great minds.
GEORGE CHAPMAN Little things please little minds.
OVID Small minds always oppose great ideas,but support only small ideas.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around, but they only take root in minds well...
JOSEPH HENRY Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Only great minds can afford a simple style.
STENDHAL Great minds are those that disguise their limits, that mask their mediocrity.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great o...
SHAKTI GAWAIN A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When we allow great minds to sleep, we allow great things to sleep!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's to...
SHERRILYN KENYON A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON 142.—As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little m...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Mature minds never get occupied by others until and unless they are influenced by their own misconce...
MUHAMMAD RAFIQ KHAN KAKAR Of course, egoists are considered winners by themselves only, but they are mere losers in the minds ...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Shoulders can carry great weights; minds, even much greater!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.
MAX MCKEOWN No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
ARISTOTLE Great minds do suffer, indeed most explicitely, for the very reason of their explicitness
CHRIS VALDES Great minds look for good ideas that they can integrate into their expanding mindset. Small minds lo...
DAVID FRISKO TEACHER Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill ...
EDMUND BURKE Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
ALEXANDER BELL Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
BARUCH SPINOZA Life's irony;The mediocre minds are ever ready to confront a great idea in a very great way.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
HENRY FIELDING Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
HENRY FIELDING Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation
HENRY FIELDING A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.
TOLEDO BLADE Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid...
SENA JETER NASLUND We all have the muscle of creativity in our minds, but for it to consistently give great results it ...
YUSUF A. LEINGE Little things affect little minds.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Little things please little minds.
ENGLISH PROVERBS Little things affect little minds
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of t...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Small minds are captivated by trifles.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last
SAMUEL JOHNSON Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.
PAWAN MISHRA Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not ...
JEAN ROSTAND A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not ...
JEAN ROSTAND There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
ERIC HOFFER There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
ERIC HOFFER Don't let small minds convince you that you can't achieve great things
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