"It is the habit of mediocre minds..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.
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More on Judgment
“If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.”
“How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.”
“To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”
More on Mediocrity
“Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.”
“The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.”
“It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.”