Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar


William Shakespeare



















It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven


E. M. Forster



















Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false


Henri Frederic Amiel

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires

Henry Ward Beecher

We discover (in the gospels) a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication

Thomas Jefferson

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one


Epictetus

















The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind

Albert Camus