Smart people talk about ideas. Stupid people talk about other people,'" I said. The line was a variation of a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt: Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events ...

Eleanor Roosevelt said that “great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people.” I find her words to be a good prism to screen politicians. Personal ...

My mom had this saying she’d use to chastise me whenever I started gossiping about others: Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people.

Wrought-iron balconies, a circular marble staircase and a spacious central courtyard give the building, completed in 1930, a stateliness worthy of the great minds it was meant to attract.

Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas." I suspect Roosevelt would be horrified by how small-minded American culture has become. Where gossip was once an unsavory, if popular ...

and great minds discuss ideas. The unfortunate reality is that the public discourse in South Africa, in particular in the past 12 months, has been reduced to small-mindedness, or at best average ...

I read somewhere that great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events and small minds discuss people. It is the people part which happens to be a stable conversation matter and no ...