A Quote by Blaise Pascal
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
The Vimalakirti Sutra states that, when one seeks the Buddhas' emancipation in the minds of ordinary beings, one finds that ordinary beings are the entities of enlightenment, and that the sufferings of birth and death are nirvana. It also states that, if the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds.
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.
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
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Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena; minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain.
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.
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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.
When something out of the ordinary happens, it is ridiculous to say that it is a mystery or a portent of something to come... the mystery is created in (their) minds, and by waiting for disaster, it is from their very minds that it occurs.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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