A Quote by Edmund Burke

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Irish - Statesman
January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

Thomas Carlyle

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

Libba Bray

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Zig Ziglar

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

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

Elbert Hubbard

We'll all go out together when we go. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go. Oh, how the world will die From great fire in the sky. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go." (Total) Call me old fashioned but I'll take 'She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain' any day.

James Patterson

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.

Daniel Quinn

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

John Stuart Mill

Democracy and violence can ill go together.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

Mahatma Gandhi

Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.