Mediocrity Quotes
473 quotes by 345 authors
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Media, the plural of mediocrity.
— Jimmy Breslin
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Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and…
— Thomas Merton
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Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could…
— Thomas Sowell
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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in…
— Dorothy Day
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I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.
— Walter Russell
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You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you…
— T. Harv Eker
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There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the Sun and its…
— Seth Shostak
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Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy…
— D. A. Carson
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The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
— William Hurt
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Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
— William Arthur Ward
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Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own…
— Uell Stanley Andersen
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if he thought you…
— Joel Osteen
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You see it in schools all over... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel…
— Fiona Wood
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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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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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