Liszt is litmus paper: a dangerous trap for the mediocre musical mind and an exalted opportunity for the pure of heart.

The young officer also lost his youthful bloom and poetic sensibility, to become, in Nabokov's description, 'a blunt fellow with a mediocre mind'.

- Nancy Reagan "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

Even-toed cats and typhoons are subjects with which even a mediocre mind can come to grips.

Jean Norwood is the mediocre mind in excelsis.

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds," the inscription read.

So maybe mediocre minds think alike too.

Albert Einstein once said that great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Some claim (wrongly) that he had a mediocre mind.

So Bush's mediocre mind is not nearly the handicap that Gore's leaden personality is.