I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
–Charles Stewart (paraphrasing Henry Thomas Buckle)*

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*The “Quote Investigator” received a request to investigate today’s quote:

“The words are attributed to social activist and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, but I have been unable to find a solid supporting citation. Similar statements have been ascribed to philosopher Socrates and U.S. Naval engineer Hyman Rickover. Would you please examine this topic?”

QI responded:

“The earliest strong match known to QI appeared in a 1901 autobiography by Charles Stewart. As a child in London, Stewart listened to the conversation of dinner guests such as history scholar Henry Thomas Buckle who would sometimes discourse engagingly for twenty minutes on a topic.”

For more information on this subject and other quotes, you can visit the Quote Investigator site here. It’s banga! (Fair warning, Henry Thomas Buckle sounds like an elite prig, but it’s still a fascinating bit of history.)