Strong Minds Discuss Ideas Average Minds

There is no evidence Socrates said this. The saying is more commonly attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt in a slightly different form — "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people" — though even that attribution remains unverified. It has also been linked to 19th-century historian Henry Thomas Buckle. The concept does not appear in Plato's or Xenophon's accounts of Socrates.