A bit of worldly wisdom has been floating around my head of late.
“Small minds talk about people. Mediocre minds talk about events. Great minds
talk about ideas.”
It’s basically a proverb against gossip and pointless debate, and it’s good so far
as it goes. It’s occurred to me, though, that too much emphasis is placed on ideas.
I offer this alternative.
“Small hearts discuss ideas. Mediocre hearts participate in events. Great hearts
care for people.”
Thoughts?
A few days ago, my random quote was “Everybody is somebody else’s weirdo”,
attributed to Dykstra. One of my readers, the blogmaster over at “the
smedley log“, asked if this might be one in the same with Lenny
Dykstra, retired baseball player and ersatz philosopher. I honestly have no
idea. I tried Googling
the quote, but found not no other credit than Dykstra – no first name. Can anybody
out there shed some light on this?