Friday, 20 October 2023

Ideas, Events, People, (Self)

Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People. ~ Variously attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, Charles Stewart, Henry Thomas Buckle, James H. Halsey, Hyman G. Rickover, Anonymous.

Updated version: Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People; Narcissists Praise Themselves. ~ moi

“Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.” ~ Henry Thomas Buckle (per Charles Stewart, 1901)


Men and women actually operate in four cognitive classes: narcissists focus on self, lowest on persons, middling on things, intellectuals on ideas.

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