Quotes About Eminence

There were many painters there, painters of every sort and of every degree of eminence—Max Ernst, for instance, one of the founders of surrealism

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence . . . Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.

The fact that Homo sapiens is the only hominid species on the Earth today makes it easy to assume that our lonely eminence is historically a natural state of affairs—which it clearly is not.

Doing something prestigious does not equal being awesome.

I don't want to just die a normal death, I wanna be killed twice.

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.

lo que los occidentales llaman "arte" es eminentemente funcional; no representa, encarna.

in addition to eminence, superiority has two other qualities or rather three—simplicity, clarity and generosity.

Society celebrates mediocrity so much that it does not take much to set yourself above the rest.

Best there is... past, present and future! Ohhhhh yeahhhh!

The press is more vicious than the populace.... It's hard to disentangle what was present in the national psyche to begin with, and what was added. It does seem peculiarly British to want to destroy eminence -- though often it's an unearned eminence, more plain ubiquity -- and once the boot has been applied, there's a huge queue of people wanting to do the same.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Nothing is simpler than to make good poverty of ideas by founding a system, and even a good idea has little value when enunciated by a solemn ass. Only its necessity to life decides the eminence of a doctrine. A doctrine that does not attack and affect the life of the period in its inmost depths is no doctrine and had better not be taught.

Everyone has a soul. But the great man—the truly significant soul—is rare.