Superiority Quotes

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.

The Germans are indeed the economically and politically strongest power in Europe. But their superiority does not equal the past and present superiority of the Americans.

The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

Superiority is always detested.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence.

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

It's very easy for us to be humble when no one else is around. There is no reason for us to demonstrate our superiority, because no one challenges it.

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is instinctly felt by an audience and is reflected in the superiority of his work

Beauty is a natural superiority.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the ego wants.

The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

A what? (Fang) Badass demon with a superiority complex who picks his teeth with bones of infants. Let’s just keep it simple and say he’s a demon I want out of the human realm. ASAP. (Thorn)

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party.

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival.

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.