Benjamin Disraeli on mediocrity
Benjamin Disraeli122 quotes“Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.”
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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli Without tact you can learn nothing.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli A precedent embalms a principle.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli There is no gambling like politics.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
Benedict CumberbatchBenedict Cumberbatch Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
Baron de MontesquieuBaron de Montesquieu You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success.
T. Harv EkerT. Harv Eker The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
Alain de BottonAlain de Botton Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It’s escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It’s one more for trying to be less.
Abel BonnardAbel Bonnard If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
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