Little minds are wounded by the smallest things.

Little things affect little minds.

Little things affect little minds

Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all and are not even hurt.

357. — Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all and are not even hurt.

Les petits esprits sont blessés des plus petites choses

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latter deserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. Such minds hardly rise into religion at all.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

there are people whose nature it is to be very much cast down by small things.

Small things start us in new ways of thinking