Mediocrities Quotes
19 quotes by 15 authors
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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
— Thomas Carlyle
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In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply…
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.
— Ramachandra Guha
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There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own…
— Erwin Chargaff
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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
— Cesare Lombroso
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Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
— Theodor Reik
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Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual…
— Arthur Koestler
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Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
— Laurence J. Peter
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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
— Oscar Wilde
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Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.
— Criss Jami
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You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.
— Joe Klein
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
— Oscar Wilde
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Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those…
— Boris Pasternak
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I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is…
— Alfred de Vigny
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Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.
— William James
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Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when…
— Ayn Rand
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To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you…
— Oscar Wilde
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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
— Oscar Wilde
Who Wrote These Mediocrities Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 19 Mediocrities Quotes as follows: