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  • To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

    Mean   Average   Mind  
  • You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

    Men   Average   Years  
    Ezra Pound (2016). “Early Poems”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications
  • There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

  • Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

  • Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

    Average   Ideas   People  
  • It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.

    Squares   Light   Average  
    "Atomic Physics" by the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd, 1948.
  • The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

  • It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

    Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1990). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952”, 1990.
  • The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

    Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”
  • A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

    Clever   Average   Mind  
  • Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

    Average   Two   Mind  
  • Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press
  • 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
  • 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.
  • To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.

    Heart   Average   Ideas  
  • To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

  • The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something that will suggest a new line of thinking and feeling. The master mind, however, can change his thought whenever he so desires. A change of scene is not necessary, because such a mind is not controlled from without. A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.

    "The Optimist Creed".
  • The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist. The time is past when we can be content with our social fabric merely because it is "ordained by divine right," or by the majesty of the law.

    Past   Average   Law  
    Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.63, 谷月社
  • The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press
  • Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.

  • Life is too short to worry about anything

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

  • Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.

    Average   People   Focus  
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