Great Mind Quotes

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

Like another great mind of his time, Albert Einstein, Keynes had a preternatural ability to see relationships between complex phenomena entirely differently than generations of experts before him.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.

Personally, I am very glad that Jeremy Borash is here in WWE. He's got a great mind - a very creative person, a good friend of mine - and he just deserves to work here.

[Napoleon Bonaparte:] A very great mind, and a rather small soul.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

There's a lot of young talent. I felt strongly that we wanted somebody with a great football mind who'd make it their mission to succeed. And a coach, likewise. Somebody young, energetic, open.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.