"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; 

• you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons;

• the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; 

• the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.”

Henry Thomas Buckle _{^{English Historian (1821-1862)}}