Top 1200 Small Minds Quotes & Sayings

Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves.

If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

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

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

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.

Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar

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.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

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.

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

These Utopian idealists like the Clintons who think they really do have the answers. They think they're following the best minds of their generation, but they're not the best minds. They don't realize that they may be the worst minds of their generation.

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.

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.

I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul's medicine and food!

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

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

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

Small things amuse small 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 things affects small minds.

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.

Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

Only small minds want always to be right.

Small minds can never handle great themes.

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek admittance. Their contribution to science is accordingly very small.

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors.

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.

Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart.

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

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

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

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

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

The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients.

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

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

They never tell a lie, not a small fabrication, not a partial truth, nor any gross unreal statement. No lies at all, so they have nothing to hide. They are a group of people who are not afraid to have their minds open.

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.