Quotes on Average Minds

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

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.

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

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

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

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.