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RE: Great Ideas? Average Events? Small People?
I agree with what you have written here.
I have read this quote, back before there was an internet, attributed to Socrates, in the form of:
“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
I have also read Eleanor Roosevelt to have added
“and alas, there are those who talk only of themselves.”.
This seems to be a derivative of the Trivium's grammar, logic, and rhetoric questions of,
who;
what, where, and when;
why, and how.
The type of person being judged by how far they can take the "line" of questioning.
The "alas" people are those who never left the gate.
Hehe, yeah it configures to the Trivium Methodology, I even put it as a tag in the tweet for this post:
https://twitter.com/KrN3l/status/831549438845997056
Good job on picking that up too! ;)
The quote was attributed to Socrates, like has been done to Einstein, and other, to give it a certain aura of authority. But it can't be traced to Socrates.
Thanks for the feedback.
I wish I could remember the book where I first read it. It will eventually come back to me.