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Quotations about mediocrity

Albert EinsteinGreat spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

 - Albert Einstein

Tags:   greatness  mediocrity  opposition  

Horace Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

 - Horace

Tags:   mediocrity  poetry  

Blaise PascalThe highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

 - Blaise Pascal

Tags:   majority  mediocrity  norms  

Michel de MontaigneThe virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity.

 - Michel de Montaigne

Tags:   grandeur  mediocrity  soul  virtue