"Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about things, lowly minds talk about people. [paraphrased]"However, this quote fails to follow the notion that, whoever uses it to guard itself from criticism or, even worse, to criticise other people, is, in fact, the lowly mind, since this mind talks (and thinks) about people at the exact moment. This is one of the fatal flaws that the pseudo-intellectuals using this quote never seem to notice.
Another one is that the statement of the quote implies that each mind - great, average and lowly, - only focuses on the one subject applied to it, and nothing could be farther from the truth.
The way I see it, a great mind will look at a person, see a situation (a thing) and derive an idea from it (by making what it has learned more abstract, and thus, more applicable to other situations).
Just something I wanted to get out of my head for a while, in order to put the people that are dumb, but want to seem intelligent into their place, which is, in a comfortable environment, doing what they should be doing all along instead of bragging about intellectual prowess they do not have - improving their cognitive functions (which does not mean just learning certain facts, but, rather, improving a certain set of skills)
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