Average Quotes

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider. View quote
George Carlin
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter. View quote
Winston Churchill
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort. View quote
Colin Powell
Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal. View quote
Uma Thurman
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. View quote
Stephen Hawking
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. View quote
Jean Kerr
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. View quote
Germaine Greer
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. (Arnold Bennett)
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. View quote
Sigmund Freud
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. View quote
Andy Rooney
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of his acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. View quote
Garrison Keillor
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group. View quote
Steven Pinker
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
Normal is the average of deviance. (Rita Mae Brown)
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize. View quote
Richard Feynman
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. View quote
Edward de Bono
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. View quote
Carl Jung