A Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Dangerous Genius Mediocrity Republic

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Robert Green Ingersoll
American - Lawyer
August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

Napoleon Bonaparte

For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Benjamin Disraeli

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

Igor Stravinsky

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.