#mediocrity

There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought and the beauty of a world or of a dung heap; her destiny is never to be mediocre. ↗

— Joséphin Péladan

#mediocrity #beauty

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. ↗

— Charles G. Dawes

#dignity #mediocrity #preserve #requires

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#column #constant #go #gold #great

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#gifts #mediocrity #recognition #sherlock-holmes #talent

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#be true #been #contempt #deal #demoralized

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#am #another #being #encourage #excellent

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets. ↗

— Anne Rice

#bets #mediocrity #more #need #world

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 Stevenson

#attempts #conceived #console #discourage #generally

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. ↗

— Henry S. Haskins

#good #good behavior #last #mediocrity #refuge

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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