#great mind

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight 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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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. ↗

— John Tillotson

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Sublimity is the echo of great mind. ↗

— Longinus

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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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. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. ↗

— Washington Allston

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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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