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- 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… — 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… — Ramachandra Guha
- There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear.… — 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,… — 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