It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected. — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities — Cesare Lombroso Copy Share Image
Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite… — William James Copy Share Image
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
