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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
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.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.