A Quote by Washington Irving
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.
If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.
Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.
Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.
How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.
The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.
When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of the miraculous. When people contemplate with open minds the germination of a single seed, they are equally overwhelmed-yet numerous babies are born every day, and no-one marvels. If only people opened their minds, they would see that the birth of a baby, in which a new life is created, is a greater miracle than restoring life.
If the world is saved, it will not be by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all. Why not new minds with new programs? Because where you find people working on programs, you don't find new minds, you find old ones. Programs and old minds go together like buggy whips and buggies.
Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.
I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199
We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that.
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