Great Mind Quotes
- The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. — Lord Byron
- It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. — Seneca the Elder
- Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is… — Wallace D. Wattles
- A great mind becomes a great fortune. — Seneca the Younger
- I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind,… — Erskine Caldwell
- Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy — Jacques Barzun
- A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things. — Plato
- A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. — Alexander Cannon
- The great mind knows the power of gentleness. — Robert Browning
- The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional… — Shunryu Suzuki
- Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. — Washington Allston
- It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it;… — Charles Caleb Colton
- Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien. — Carl von Clausewitz
- A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself. — William Hazlitt
- To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. — John Tillotson
- This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from. — Katharine Weber
- The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind... — Richard Whately
- Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind. — Ken Robinson
- One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. — Alan Bradley