“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.”
Warren G. Bennis
“No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.”
Andre Maurois
“[Honors: At his funeral, Charlie Chaplin read Dreiser's poem,] The Road I Came. ... American writing before and after his time differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin. He was a man of large originality, of profound feeling and of unshakable courage. All of us who write are better off because he lived, worked and hoped.”
Theodore Dreiser
“All profoundly original art looks ugly at first”
Clement Greenberg
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
Lao Tzu
“The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly”
Stendhal
“Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong”
Edward O. Wilson
