A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Foolish Minds Small Small Minds

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American - Philosopher
May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

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

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

Washington Irving

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Blaise Pascal

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy.

Sallust

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.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

Myles Horton

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

H. L. Mencken

Small things affects small minds.

Benjamin Disraeli

Small things amuse small minds.

Doris Lessing

The personality is defined by its inconsistencies, not its consistencies. It's what makes us unique and who we are.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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.