Give Compassion: Every day the average person fights epic battles never told just to survive.
What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.
Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.
The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something that will suggest a new line of thinking and feeling. Th...
When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.
In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.