#great minds

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Washington Irving

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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Only great minds can afford a simple style. ↗

— Stendhal

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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake. ↗

— Walter Martin

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Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century. ↗

— John Clayton

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. ↗

— Washington Irving

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. ↗