Great Mind Quotes

I must admit watching the great mind of Sherlock Holmes struggle to ask even a single question was perhaps the best part of that wretched day. Other than the kiss itself. I caught my finger touching my lips and turned my back to him, looking over my shoulder briefly to say, "Looked like you needed a distraction. ~ Heather W. Petty

Thinking can be done best when you're in that state of mind where nothing can slip under the radar and destroy your concentration. ~ Auliq Ice

Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...
Otherwise you will drown in me. ~ Maryum Ahsam

A great mind is just a great mind, and try not to worry too much about what package it's in. ~ Kristine Barnett

Think big.
Dream great dreams.
Take action to realize your dreams. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nature answers every question. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition. ~ Joseph Joubert

Critical thinking is a necessary and vital skill".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

Think big or die small!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~ Stephen Richards

I'm blessed when someone who I loved and trusted dropped me off, because I have a good choice to think and great lesson to learn ~ Sivaprakash Sidhu

If only I could dive deep into your thoughts and know what you are thinking right now. ~ Suyasha Subedi

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. ~ George Gordon Byron

Great mind, great soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female: and in the man's brain, the man predominates over the woman, and in the woman's brain, the woman predominates over the man ... If one is a man, still the woman part of the brain must have effect; and a woman also must have intercourse with the man in her. Coleridge perhaps meant this when he said that a great mind is androgynous. It is when this fusion takes place that the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties. ~ Virginia Woolf

A great life starts and steadies with a great mind that is open to new ideas, fierce in defense of truth, and always eager to learn. ~ Toni Sorenson

The endurance of monotony has about the same place in a healty mind that the endurance of darkness has: that is to say, as a strong intellect will have pleasure in the solemnities of storm and twilight, and in the broken and mysterious lights that gleam among them, rather than in mere brilliancy and glare, while a frivolous mind will dread the shadow and storm; and as a great man will be ready to endure much darkness of fortune in order to reach greater eminence of power or felicity, while an inferior man will not pay the price; exactly in like manner a great mind will accept, or even delight in, monotony which would be wearisome to an inferior intellect, because it has more patience and power of expectation, and is ready to pay the full price for the great future pleasure of change. ~ John Ruskin

A great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things. ~ Lydia M. Child

Viktor Frankl said the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause him to think about anything he didn't want to think about ~ Bob Proctor

We and our environments form such interconnected cluster systems that mutually process information and alter it while exchanging it; we are all (humans) like a vast compound eye which shows a repetition of the motion of a single object but each cell reflecting slightly differently. (p.155) ~ Philip K. Dick

The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man. ~ Indiana Lang

when you see the problem as a more of you and less of people, you will find a distinctive solution to the recurring hurdles. Attitudinal and mindset change can cause a great change ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. ~ Aristotle.

Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... ~ Nanette L. Avery

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. ~ Washington Allston

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, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller. ~ Erskine Caldwell

The real violence exerted by propaganda is this: by means of apparent truth and apparent reason, it induces us to surrender our freedom and self-possession. It predetermines us to certain conclusions, and does so in such a way that we imagine that we are fully free in reaching them by our own judgment and our own thought. Propaganda makes up our mind for us, but in such a way that it leaves us the sense of pride and satisfaction of men who have made up their own minds. And, in the last analysis, propaganda achieves this effect because we want it to. This is one of the few real pleasures left to modern man: this illusion that he is thinking for himself when, in fact, someone else is doing his thinking for him. And this someone else is not a personal authority, the great mind of a genial thinker, it is the mass mind, the general "they," the anonymous whole. One is left, therefore, not only with the sense that one has thought things out for himself, but that he has also reached the correct answer without difficulty - the answer which is shown to be correct because it is the answer of everybody. Since it is at once my answer and the answer of everybody, how should I resist it? ~ Thomas Merton

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 activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn't care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

... these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity ~ Elizabeth Cunningham

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. ~ George Jean Nathan

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

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving. ~ Laura Whitcomb

Silence fell between them, until the Young Dread finally dared ask, "Were you a great mind, master?"
A real smile crossed his face. "You don't ask if I am a great mind, child? Because I speak gibberish now? Let me tell you – I once thought I was a great mind."
"And now?"
"Now it does not matter. Great minds are not what's wanted. Only good hearts. Good hearts choose wisely.
"How does one find a good heart?"
"It is luck child. Always luck. With you, I have been very lucky. ~ Arwen Elys Dayton

when I look at people fighting with ammunition and weapons of all kind I ponder within me;somehow as a cynic. Ammunition's and weapons are good for war; Yes,they are better necessities to winning battle but the best choice of weapons are neither ammunition nor the strength of a battalion of army but wisdom; a pen on a paper backed by a great mind ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind. ~ Joseph Addison

Your thoughts are your fate.
Think positively. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. ~ John Tillotson

A great mind must be androgynous. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people. ~ Agatha Christie

Stop letting others determine what you believe in and celebrate unless you are okay with co-signing someone else's agenda. I for one, am not. ~ Carlos Wallace

I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey. ~ Homer

My idea is that Miss Vane didn't do it," said Wimsey. "I dare say that's an idea which has already occurred to you, but with the weight of my great mind behind it, no doubt it strikes the imagination more forcibly. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark. ~ Chaim Potok

always remember that we are in Germany where we have been able to do what would have been possible nowhere else: namely to proclaim as a great mind and profound thinker a mindless, ignorant, nonsense-spreading philosophaster who, through unprecedented, hollow verbiage, thoroughly and permanently disorganizes their brains. I mean our dear Hegel. And ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. ~ Alan Bradley

A great mind becomes a great fortune. ~ Seneca.

When we reflect that her century was the brutalest, the wickedest, the rottenest in history since the darkest ages, we are lost in wonder at the miracle of such a product from such a soil. The contrast between her and her century is the contrast between day and night. She was truthful when lying was the common speech of men; she was honest when honesty was become a lost virtue; she was a keeper of promises when the keeping of a promise was expected of no one; she gave her great mind to great thoughts and great purposes when other great minds wasted themselves upon pretty fancies or upon poor ambitions; she was modest, and fine, and delicate when to be loud and coarse might be said to be universal; she was full of pity when a merciless cruelty was the rule; she was steadfast when stability was unknown, and honorable in an age which had forgotten what honor was; she was a rock of convictions in a time when men believed in nothing and scoffed at all things; she was unfailingly true to an age that was false to the core; she maintained her personal dignity unimpaired in an age of fawnings and servilities; she was of a dauntless courage when hope and courage had perished in the hearts of her nation; she was spotlessly pure in mind and body when society in the highest places was foul in both - she was all these things in an age when crime was the common business of lords and princes, and when the highest personages in Christendom were able to astonish even that infamous era and make ~ Mark Twain

The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires. ~ Jean Racine

A great mind is not sharpened by consorting with lesser minds. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts. ~ Amit Ray

Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent. ~ Frances Wright

Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver. ~ Nanette L. Avery

We gather here today," said Robert, reaching out his arms expansively, "to honor my son, Alexander Gideon Lightwood, who has single-handedly destroyed the forces of the Endarkened and who defeated in battle the son of Valentine Morgenstern. Alec saved the life of our third son, Max. Along with his parabatai, Jace Herondale, I am proud to say that my son is one of the greatest warriors I have ever known." He turned and smiled at Alec and Magnus. "It takes more than a strong arm to make a great warrior," he went on. "It takes a great mind and a great heart. My son has both. He is strong in courage, and strong in love. Which is why I also wanted to share our other good news with you. As of yesterday, my son became engaged to be married to his partner, Magnus Bane - "
A chorus of cheers broke out. Magnus accepted them with a modest wave of his fork. Alec slid down in his chair, his cheeks burning. Jace looked at him meditatively.
"Congratulations," he said. "I kind of feel like I missed an opportunity."
"W-what?" Alec stammered.
Jace shrugged. "I always knew you had a crush on me, and I kind of had a crush on you, too. I thought you should know."
"What?" Alec said again.
Clary sat up straight. "You know," she said, "do you think there's any chance that you two could ..." She gestured between Jace and Alec. "It would be kind of hot."
"No," Magnus said. "I am a very jealous warlock."
"We're parabatai," Alec said, regaining his voice. "The Cla ~ Cassandra Clare

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. ~ Alexander Cannon

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 the weak one. ~ Wallace D. Wattles

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind. ~ Seneca The Younger

When faith touches your heart, you can walk on water.
When fear pricks your soul, you can sink on land.
With a great mind, you can achieve countless things.
With a strong heart, you can achieve extraordinary things.
With a loving soul, you can achieve impossible things. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A great "Mind" does not prove anything, his/her work speaks volumes. ~ Josephine Akhagbeme

I would rather be a free animal then a cage animal ~ Beto Jimenez

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago. ~ John Maynard Keynes

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it. ~ Pietro Aretino

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it. ~ Henry Home, Lord Kames

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses. ~ Amit Ray

Great thinking comes from a great mind ~ Nelson Mandela

The great mind knows the power of gentleness. ~ Robert Browning

Sectarian thinking is contagious and rapidly spread. ~ Moutasem Algharati

Having unthoughtful thoughts for me is unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even think about that. ~ Ana Claudia Antunes

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things. ~ Plato

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do. ~ Kobe Bryant

She wanted to be alone. Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to be collected. She was in dancing, singing, exclaiming spirits; and till she had moved about, and talked to herself, and laughed and reflected, she could be fit for nothing rational. ~ Jane Austen

Painters ... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds. ~ William Hazlitt

As a critic, I try to stay neutral about movies before I see them, but I really wanted "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" to be great. It's based on a barbed memoir by Kim Barker called "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days In Afghanistan And Pakistan." And its stars Tina Fey, out of her comfort zone, just as Barker was a fish out of water when, in 2004, she began covering the Afghanistan occupation for the Chicago Tribune. ~ David Edelstein

Love is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own ... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy ~ Robert A. Heinlein

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game. ~ Gary Gygax

Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. ~ Stephen King

Love is a great and ageless emotion sweeter than sugar.If not handle it safe,It can be dangerous than fire. ~ Ajmal.t.v.

I play a lot of basketball and racquetball, as they're both great for your feet and hand eye coordination. Other drills can help as well, such as simply catching a football in distant positions from different heights and velocities. ~ Antonio Cromartie

A mind enclosed in language is in prison. ~ Simone Weil

I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to not constantly feel like you've got someone living inside your face, shooting you with a mini Taser. ~ Jon Ronson

All that evening he talked to the Candle of Arras, in a low confidential tone. When you get down to it, he thought, there's not much difference between politics and sex; it's all about
power. He didn't suppose he was the first person in the world to make this observation. It's a question of seduction, and how fast and cheap you can effect it: if Camille, he thought, approximates to one of those little milliners who can't make ends meet - in other words, an absolute pushover - then Robespierre is a Carmelite, mind set on becoming Mother Superior. You can't corrupt her; you can wave your cock under her nose, and she's neither shocked nor interested: why should she be, when she hasn't the remotest idea
what it's for? ~ Hilary Mantel

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So ... get on your way! ~ Dr. Seuss

I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson. ~ Hannah Simone

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body. ~ William Shakespeare

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one. ~ A.J.P. Taylor

My characters have a mind of their own. I'm just the vessel through which they speak. ~ Ginny Lynn Peebles

A great many young men try to justify themselves and check inward protests by the perpetual self-suggestion that it is better to keep on, for the present, in questionable occupations, because the great financial reward will put them in position to do better later. This is a sort of sedative to the conscience to keep it quiet until they can afford to listen to it. ~ Orison Swett Marden

Defeat manifests in the mind long before it reaches the heart. ~ Aaron-Michael Hall

I have great love and respect for Russian history and culture. But the world is changing and Russia is too. Russia is part of the modern world, not the world of the past but the modern world. And I believe it has an even greater future than some other countries that can't take care of their young people, of the new generations, of their children, and believe that they can just let things slide. ~ Vladimir Putin

It hurts, but that's all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There's only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run. ~ David Goggins

There's no great loss without some small gain. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

The greatest adventures often start with a simple task and rarely seem so great when you are enduring them. ~ Kel Kade

The word Tocqueville used was "mores" - meaning those habits "of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group." He wrote: "I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic." And then he said that by the term "mores" he meant "habits of the heart." In the same book Tocqueville put it as bluntly as Franklin or Adams had, writing: "Liberty cannot be established without morality." This ~ Eric Metaxas

Don't wait, make it happen. Take action to be great. My motto is 'Don't wait for others to say yes. You can say yes'.

I live it everyday because of my past experiences in my studies not leading to a job in the field that we all hope for and imagine while we study. After years of frustration and struggle, I decided to make my own luck and returned to my childhood dream of being an author.

Because of my own belief in my self, my own struggles and determination, I am currently the author of 2 books. All in the space of less than 12 months. So when you want to achieve something, tell yourself that 'I say yes and my yes is the only one that counts. ~ Tia Mitsis

Why would he bother? He has no more wish to wed than I."
"How do you know?" Anthony asked. "Did you ask him?"
Her face heated, and Anthony covered his eyes. "Pray do not say another word. I don't wish to know."
"Bridgeton had a choice, Sara," Marcus said. "And he chose marriage."
"Get married or die. I vow, how did he make up his mind so quickly?"
"I wanted to shoot him," Anthony offered. "But Marcus would not allow it."
"You are both insufferable! ~ Karen Hawkins