Least favorite quote

My least favorite quote is: "Great minds think alike."

According to http://www.phrases.org.uk the earliest version of the expression was written by Dabridgcourt Belchier in Hans Beer-Pot, 1618:

"Though he made that verse, Those words were made before. Good wits doe jumpe."

An early example written in the modern style can be found in Carl Theodor von Unlanski's biography The woful history of the unfortunate Eudoxia, 1816:

"It may occur that an editor has already printed something on the identical subject - great minds think alike, you know."

I'll let Thomas Paine tell you why I don't like it:

"I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all. It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree."

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Source:  http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/great-minds-think-alike.html