A Quote by Ovid

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

Ovid

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Ovid
Roman - Poet
43 BC - 17 AD

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

Edward Young

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

Charles Caleb Colton

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

Mahatma Gandhi

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

Samuel Johnson

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.

Van Wyck Brooks

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

One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.

Anuj

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

Oliver Goldsmith

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Aristotle

Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

Friedrich Schiller

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

Van Wyck Brooks

Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.