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Mediocrity |
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 | If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 18 likes |
 | The 'C' students run the world. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 13 likes |
 | The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 10 likes |
 | Only a mediocre person is always at his best. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 9 likes |
 | To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 9 likes |
 | Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 8 likes |
 | Actually he was a pessimist, and, like all pessimists, a ridiculously unobservant man. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 8 likes |
 | Being average means you are as close to the bottom as you are to the top. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 7 likes |
 | Normality is a paved road. It’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow on it. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 7 likes |
 | One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 7 likes |
 | Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 6 likes |
 | Because politics is the science of the possible, it only appeals to second-rate minds. The first raters only interested in the impossible. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 5 likes |
 | When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 5 likes |
 | The height of perfection is mediocrity. — Pitigrilli (Dino Segre), 1893-1975, Italian writer 5 likes |
 | Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers. 4 likes |
 | There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public speaking. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 4 likes |
| The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
| Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 3 likes |
 | The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 3 likes |
 | I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees. — Bill Gates, 1955-, American businessman 3 likes |
 | If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | Idleness is only fatal to the mediocre. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 2 likes |
 | I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 2 likes |
 | In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 2 likes |
 | Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author’s ideas and those of the readers. — Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer 1 likes |
 | Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. |
 | Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality. |
| Reading is an unbeatable drug, because more than just the mediocrity of our lives, it allows us to escape the mediocrity of our souls. |
 | Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre. |
 | It is a sign of mediocrity to be incapable of enthusiasm. |
| I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity. |
| One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. |
 | Those who aim at faultless regularity will only produce mediocrity, and no one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. |
 | Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. |
 | Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours. |
 | Mediocrity always refuses to admire and, often, to approve. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | 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 edifice might collapse. |
 | It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. |
Funny Quotes
 | Unlike most other people, I'm just an average person. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Special Quotes
 | Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. — Advertisement for Listerine mouthwash in US (1925) 4 likes |
