Vulgar Minds Quotes
- Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend. — Samuel Johnson
- The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was… — Cheikh Anta Diop
- Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton
- ...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds. — Stendhal
- The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success. — Edmund Burke
- Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source… — Charles Caleb Colton