Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

But these great minds cannot avois doing extraordinary things!

But these great minds cannot avoid doing extraordinary things!

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Great minds look for good ideas that they can integrate into their expanding mindset. Small minds look for anything they don't like which is contrary to the belief system that they have mindlessly accepted. They then proceed to "throw out the baby with the bathwater" by denigrating the person or the group from which they picked out the unacceptable idea.