Mediocritist Quotes & Sayings

The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of a prospect of nourishing, and that is sapere aude: DARE TO BE WISE. — Kenny Smith

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. — Michael Michalko

Desire and happiness cannot live together. — Epictetus

As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence, we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come. — Francis Of Assisi

Non omnis moriar, said Horace's Odes - I shall not wholly die. Yes, and he was right. As long as people remembered, then death was not complete. Only if there were nobody at all left to remember would death be complete. — Alexander McCall Smith

With my kids, they're told 75 times a day that they're loved. One thing I know is they feel loved and secure and happy and needed and necessary and a part of something. — Johnny Depp

I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet. — John Adams

One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out. — Anne Sexton

A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves. — Confucius

We don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust. We oppose every type of crime against any people. But we want to know whether this crime actually took place or not. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The sun cannot shine as bright without a proper darkness to counter it.
The world had gone a bit gray. — Kevin Hearne

Dad seemed lost in a depressed daze. He had recently been saying privately that the evangelical world was more or less being led by lunatics, psychopaths, and extremists, and agreeing with me that if "our side" ever won, America would be in deep trouble. But by then Dad was dying and knew he had very little time left. There was no time to change his life or his new "friends." All — Frank Schaeffer

There are a number of fascinating stories included in 'The Human Face of Big Data' that represent some of the most innovative applications of data that are shaping our future. — Rick Smolan

Physical pain was rare for angels to feel, but I was in it. Unyielding and excruciating pain. — Ashlan Thomas