Little Minds Quotes

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

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

Small things amuse small minds.

I love those who can smile in trouble.

So don’t you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.

Don’t ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Little minds think and talk about people.
Average minds think and talk about things and actions.
Great minds think and talk about ideas.

I despise a person of little mind – one might as well not have any.

Why do we continue to breed little minds who can find no recompense for their own failures other than to belittle and mock the talents, even the dress, of others? When will everyone realize that we are all equal in the eyes of God?

There is no place for little minds in a great work

A lot of people have pretty little heads, but it’s difficult to find a pretty little mind.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

The worst of pushing horrible things down into one’s subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they had been in a refrigerator. You haven’t allowed time to get at them to-to mould them over a little.

I literally finished 7th Heaven, went up to Toronto, and started SAW. So, it was definitely a little mind change.

People don’t very much like things that are beautiful – they are so far from their nasty little minds.

Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if thereby they avoid a greater one. If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing.

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.

How great in number are the little minded men

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.

Stop worrying about the ‘dumbing down’ of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a ‘race to the bottom’ of the page by little minds confined to little words.

‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.