Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old great minds quotes, great minds sayings, and great minds proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. Washington Irving
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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. Jean Rostand
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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.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune. Honoré de Balzac
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Failures and mistakes are definitely the greatest teachers to all great minds.Edmond Mbiaka
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Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good. Friedrich Schiller
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.Aristotle
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Great minds think alike, but lovers think as one.Pyreglide
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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. Tryon Edwards
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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.Guy de Mauppasant
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Oblivion is a second death, which great minds dread more than the first.Jean de Boufflers
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Great minds find beauties and appreciate it. Average minds find commonalities and compare. Small minds find the problems and criticize.Debasish Mridha
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While small minds were bragging about their material possessions, great minds were busy expanding their assets.Edmond Mbiaka
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Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecutionJeremy Aldana
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A great mind is not sharpened by consorting with lesser minds.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars. Andre Gide
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Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials. Mercy Otis Warren
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds. Petrarch
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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses. Amit Ray
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Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light! Mehmet Murat ildan
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind. Joseph Addison
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal
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To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. John Buchan
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Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.Charles Caleb Colton
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Only great minds can afford a simple style. Stendhal
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A great mind becomes a great fortune. Seneca The Younger
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The great mind knows the power of gentleness.Robert Browning
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt