The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. — Aesop
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds. — Zig Ziglar
Only small minds want always to be right. — Louis XIV
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. — Blaise Pascal
Great minds discuss ideas, medium minds discuss events, and little minds discuss people. — Indian Proverbs
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little minds think and talk about people.
Average minds think and talk about things and actions.
Great minds think and talk about ideas. — Benjamin Franklin
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes. — Washington Irving
We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind. — Edward Bernays
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. — Andrew Sean Greer
You can't tell big dreams to small minded people. — Steve Harvey
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. — Jack Ma
If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz
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
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart. — Ramakrishna
Small Minds Image Quotes
Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind. — Mary Kay Ash
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Small Town Small Minds Quotes
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. — Jacques Barzun
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. — Rogers Hornsby
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. — Kami Garcia
Don't let small mind convince you that your dreams are too big.
My mom. She was quite a character. Open-minded. It was a very small town, and she started her own business, manufacturing children's wear. She was very dynamic. Her death was like the umbilical cord being cut. That's when I moved to America. — Francisco Costa
I'm still quite small-minded and small-town, and people look at me like, "You're too famous to remember me." I want to give them a tap on the shoulder and thank them. — John Newman
But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A. — Carrie Underwood
Don't Let Small Minds Quotes
Don't let small minded people dictate how you should look and be free. — Brian Molko
Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own. — Russell Lynes
Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself. — Unknown
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let's face it, most people dream too small, they don't think big enough. — John C. Maxwell
Little Minds Quotes
... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls. — Lev S. Vygotsky
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. — Norman Vincent Peale
What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities. — Mae Jemison
Don't let small minds convince you that your dreams are too big.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. — Thomas Paine
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. — Leonardo da Vinci
As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. — Ayrton Senna
It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below. — Joseph M. Juran
You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets. — Glen Campbell
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if thereby they avoid a greater one. If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing. — Frederick the Great
Young Minds Quotes
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. — Henry Ford
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. — John Glenn
So, transform yourself first… Because you are young and have dreams and want to do something meaningful, that in itself, makes you our future and our hope. Keep expanding your horizon, decolonize your mind, and cross borders. — Yuri Kochiyama
If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them. — KRS-One
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. — Timothy Leary
Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves. — Rudyard Kipling
For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind? — Guru Nanak
The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever. — Warren Buffett
There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment. — Joan Ganz Cooney
You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers. — Mother Teresa
The world is waiting for you to wake up to the person you are called to be. Stop listening to the negative inner conversation that's causing you to play small. Focus your mind on positive thoughts, possibilities and solutions that can move you forward. Tap into your creativity and determination and stay busy. Stay focused. — Les Brown
Sometimes I need people around me to remind me, to keep enjoying the small things. — Ellyse Perry
Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? — Robert Breault
I’ve learned from watching my mother train to become a police officer that small steps add to giant leaps. — Scott Kelly
I don’t think a regular person appreciates how insane it is that computers work. I propose we stare at each other mind-blown for about 1 hour per day, in small groups in circles around a chip on a pedestal, appreciating that we can coerce physics to process information like that. — Andrej Karpathy
For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d. — Meir Kahane
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. — Patrick Rothfuss
Be grateful for the opportunities that come your way and make the most of them. Appreciate every experience, whether big or small. — Edward Barber
Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart. — Fred Allen
We are as small as our joy and as big as our pain. — Mexican Proverbs
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit. — Radclyffe Hall
My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses — John Keats
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. — Marlo Morgan
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain. — Wilfred Trotter
Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...] — Terry Pratchett
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind. — Shunryu Suzuki
The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life. — Gustave Le Bon
Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination. — William Arthur Ward
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. — Napoleon Hill
It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense. — William Cobbett
Do not neglect the day of small things, for little beginnings have big endings. — Florence Scovel Shinn
The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul or God) has neither caste nor race, Neither eyes, nor ears, nor hands, nor feet, Sages, this Self is infinite, present in the great and in the small, Everlasting and changeless, the source of life. — Eknath Easwaran
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds. — Paramahansa Yogananda
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