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Great Minds Quotes

A great mind must be androgynous.

A great mind must be androgynous.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.96

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

Robert Browning, Charlotte Endymion Porter, Helen Archibald Clarke (1898). “Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau”

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated)”, p.1434, BookRix

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.613, Random House

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

"De Clementia". Book by Seneca the Younger,

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

Marcel Proust (1958). “By Way of Sainte-Beuve: (Contre Sainte-Beuve)”

Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

Henry Purcell, Nahum Tate (1978). “Purcell, Didon et Enée”

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.20, Criss Jami

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois act 5, sc. 1 (1613)

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.22, Macmillan

Great minds sink alike, right?

Jay McInerney (1989). “Story of My Life”