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  • Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

    Mind   Doe   Lines  
    Jack McDevitt (2013). “A Talent for War (Alex Benedict - Book 1): Alex Benedict -”, p.331, Hachette UK
  • 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.

    Love   Heart   Dawn  
  • How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

  • One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.

    Heart   Soul   Mind  
  • Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind... I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it. And I think it's outrageous to say "The L word". I mean, excuse me. They should be damn lucky that they were liberals here. Liberals gave more to the population of the United States than any other group.

    Mean   Thinking   Mind  
    "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 6, 2005.
  • I do not like to call myself a Liberal, because there is so much that is wrong with liberalism. I also do not like to call my a Conservative for exactly the same reason. The fact that the theater of conservativism today seems to be such a haven for such an abundance of small minded, non-thinking, irrationalists is however making it very difficult for me to not adopt a harder stance.

  • Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

    Loretta Chase (2006). “Lord Perfect”, p.67, Penguin
  • Don't let small minded people dictate how you should look and be free.

    People   Looks   Should  
  • Small things affects small minds.

  • Consistency is the defense of a small mind

    David Eddings (1991). “The Seeress of Kell”, Del Rey
  • Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.

    FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Feb 06, 2017
  • I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.

    Jealous   Men   Law  
  • The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

  • Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

    Mean   Men   Rallying Cry  
  • Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

  • Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

  • On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me

    Funny   Summer   Powerful  
    Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.57
  • Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

  • Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.

    Mind   Great Minds   Bigs  
  • An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.

  • I don't like it when people ask me what my favourite Beatles song is. I always get that. First of all, I don't like having to pick a favourite thing anyway. You can't pick a favourite Beatles song! What about "Strawberry Fields"? What about "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"? What about "Tomorrow Never Knows"? Come on. That question is small minded to think you could even have a favourite Beatles song.

    Song   Thinking   Sky  
    Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk
  • Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.

    Average   Ideas   People  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.613, St. Martin's Griffin
  • The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

  • Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  • Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.

    Men   Average   Order  
    "Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal and Social Life in Edinburgh and London, 1850-1900". Book by Charles Stewart, p. 33, 1901.
  • Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

  • Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

    Mind   Insult   Argument  
    Laurie R. King (2016). “The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies”, p.273, Bantam
  • Only small minds want always to be right.

    Mind   Want   Small Minds  
  • Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

    Upset   Mind   Stressed  
  • Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.

    Memorable   Mind   Earth  
    "Interview with Lauren Bacall". "CNN Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 6, 2005.
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