这个短语不难明白它的意思，请看对话：

    A: I don’t get it that so many people said they liked the movie. I thought it was trash.

    B: Great minds think alike! I’m so glad I’m not the only one that thinks it’s bad.

    Note: It means “Intelligent people think like each other.” It isn’t especially old as proverbs go, but the thought behind it dates from at least the early 17th century. The earliest usage was 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.

    Thomas Paine, the English-born revolutionary who became one of the founding fathers of the United States, had a different response to this idea. He said, “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.”