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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

— A. A. Milne

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

— Andre Weil

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

— Dalai Lama

I always put myself second - I like to make others happy.

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

— Sydney J. Harris

If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.

— Bruce Lipton

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

— John Henry Newman

✗Opposing Perspectives

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

— Gerald Finzi

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

— George Henry Lewes

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

— Leo Rosten