Summarizing the post is nine lines long, at the core is this quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds

Summarizing the post is nine lines long, at the core is this quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. Now my question is: the value of this quote is in the person who wrote it or in its content? Great mind are great in a narrow sense. When you examine the lives of people with great minds you discover that the greatness is not so great. For example Newton did some experiments by diving a hole in his eyes, Fisher was in jail and a never ending story of miserable lifes for great people.