Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
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.