Quotes about mediocrity

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

"I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?"

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.

He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.

What we really desire of any man conducting any business is that the full force of an ordinary man should be put into that particular study. We do not desire that the full force of that study should be put into an ordinary man.

Idleness is only fatal to the mediocre.