(193 quotes found)
“There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.”
Paul Gauguin
“Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.”
Henry S. Haskins
“A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.”
Orison Swett Marden
“No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.”
Alan Turing
“First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.”
Michael Caine
“NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe”
Benjamin Disraeli
“The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.”
Rene Magritte
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein
