Mediocrity quotes

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◆ Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein100

◆ Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

- Arthur Conan Doyle Sr99

◆ 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 declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

- Jean De La Bruyere99

◆ Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ "Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters

- Ayn Rand99

◆ Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

- Fulton J Sheen99

◆ Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people

- Joseph Joubert99

◆ Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ The height of mediocrity is still low.

- Vanna Bonta99

◆ 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.

- Robert Louis Stevenson99

◆ Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

- Chet Atkins99

◆ Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe

- Benjamin Disraeli99

◆ In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous

- Robert Green Ingersoll99

◆ The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

- James Fenimore Cooper99

◆ Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

- Vanna Bonta99