Former TRT Announcer Sırrı Er: “Excessive humility is listening to advice from mediocrity.”

Former TRT Announcer Sırrı Er: “Excessive humility is listening to advice from mediocrity.”
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Publish: 28.04.2026
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“Excessive humility is listening to advice from mediocrity.”

Humility that goes beyond the limit is bowing to the guidance of an unworthy person. This humility ceases to be a “virtue” and becomes a participation in weakness and foolishness.
Moderation is essential in everything.

True maturity is being able to discern whose advice is worth listening to; otherwise, one lowers one’s own competence to the level of mediocrity.

Humility is bowing before the truth; not before the ignorant or the mediocre.
When the knowledgeable bow to the advice of the ignorant, they pave the way for the dominance of mediocrity (mediocracy).

Mediocrity tries to direct the humble by encroaching upon their space.

If the misconception that “everyone’s opinion is equally valuable on every issue” spreads in a society, ignorance becomes an organized force and transforms into collective folly.

From classical Ottoman literature to classical texts, the line between “humility” and “abasement” is very sharp. Entrusting one’s words to someone who doesn’t appreciate their value is like throwing a pearl into the mud.

If we look through the lens of “rationalism,” as championed by figures like Nabizade Nazım or Şinasi, the advice of mediocrity is mere “noise.”

If a wise person mistakes this noise for wisdom and listens to it, they lose their unique and elevated language; they become ordinary.
Excessive humility is sacrificing truth to falsehood.

“He who converses with the ignorant, even if he is learned, remains ignorant.”

Saadi Shirazi

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Kaynak: Sırrı Er @konusmasanati

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