Friendship Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.

— Rutvik Oza

“Productive mediocrity requires discipline of an ordinary kind. It is safe and threatens no one. Nothing will be changed by mediocrity. . . . But genius is…

— Adam M. Grant

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

— Agnes Repplier

There has been an obvious effort to play it safe, to make 'Bonanza' a good family show that would offend no one and hit…

— Pernell Roberts

If you want to be average, do what others do. If you want to be awesome, do what no one does.

— Alexander Den Heijer

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

— Herman Melville

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

— Max Beerbohm