Antiquity Quote by Samuel Johnson

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only…

— Anonymous

“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults…

— Matthew Lewis

“The devoid of talent and unskilled ones repudiate the value of one's writing that even is beautiful, and visionary, since one holds minor status,…

— Ehsan Sehgal

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of…

— Aristotle

A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in…

— Walter Savage Landor

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit…

— Samuel Johnson

“Nothing is a greater obstacle to our progress in knowledge, than a bad performance of a celebrated author; because, before we instruct we must…

— Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you…

— Eva Moskowitz

Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all…

— Plato

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

— Mark Twain

“Excellence has always been achieved by those who dared to believe that some thing inside them is superior than circumstances.”

— Sadiq Shah