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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above 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.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.