It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.
It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.
Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
Regulators are power-lusting mediocrities.
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
