#great minds

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. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Only great minds can afford a simple style. ↗

— Stendhal

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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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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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake. ↗

— Walter Martin

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