Mediocrities Quotes

19 quotes by 15 authors

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. — Thomas Carlyle
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
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
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
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities — Cesare Lombroso
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. — Theodor Reik
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
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making. — Laurence J. Peter
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. — Oscar Wilde
Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. — Criss Jami
You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities. — Joe Klein
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
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
Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. — Oscar Wilde

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