Average Quotes

• 

  The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

  188 Copy quote

• The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  112 Copy quote

• Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie.

  David Icke

  Humanity, Mind, Zombie

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Hate, Men, Envy

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Moving, Thinking, Feelings

  206 Copy quote

• Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise.

  Leon Trotsky

  Men, Voice, Musical

  6 Copy quote

• The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  13 Copy quote

• When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Looks, Realizing

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Vanity, Action

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.54, Courier Corporation

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

  Gore Vidal

  Freedom Of Speech, Liberty, Libertarian

  Gore Vidal (2011). “Burr: A Novel”, p.598, Vintage

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.

  Laozi

  Believe, Practice, People

  6 Copy quote

• It may be quite true that some negroes are better than some white men; but no rational man, cognisant of the facts, believes that the average negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the average white man. And, if this be true, it is simply incredible that, when all his disabilities are removed, and our prognathous relative has a fair field and no favour, as well as no oppressor, he will be able to compete successfully with his bigger-brained and smaller-jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried on by thoughts and not by bites.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "Emancipation – Black and White". Essay by Thomas Henry Huxley, mathcs.clarku.edu. 1865.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

  Robert G. Allen

  Leadership, Dream, Crazy

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

  James Bovard

  Years, Liberty, Libertarian

  James Bovard (1995). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.289, Palgrave Macmillan

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Justice, Liberty

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Second Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.113, Vintage

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

  38 Copy quote

• Water: 35 Liters. Carbon: 20 Kg. Ammonia: 4 Liters. Lime: 1.5 Kg. Phosphorus: 800 g. Salt: 250 g. Saltpeter: 100g. Sulfur: 80g. Fluorine: 7.5 g. Iron: 5 g. Silicon: 3 g. And 15 other elements in small quantities. That's the total chemical makeup of the average adult body. For that matter, the elements found in a human being is all junk that you can buy in any market with a child's allowance. Humans are pretty cheaply made.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Children, Makeup, Iron

  "Fullmetal Alchemist". Manga by Hiromu Arakawa, 2001 - 2010.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.

  Tom Peters

  Differences, Imagination, Zeal

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.14, Vintage

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

  Christian D. Larson

  People, Desire, Persons

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “The Ideal Made Real: Or Applied Metaphysics for Beginners”, p.224, The Floating Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Desire, Winner

  56 Copy quote

• You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 14, 2017

  81 Copy quote

  Show source

• Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Motivational Sports, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 26, 2016

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Bottom

  19 Copy quote

• Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Witty

  180 Copy quote

• Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.

  Lois Gibbs

  Determination, Persistence, People

  8 Copy quote