"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ― Eleanor Roosevelt Topic(s): Great Tags: average, discuss, great, ideas, minds More From Eleanor Roosevelt "I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity." "Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression." "I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war." More In Great "Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"― Leonardo da Vinci "Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville."― Jesse Jackson "Show me a great actor and I’ll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you’ve seen the devil."― W. C. Fields