Modesty is superiority bowing to mediocrity.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

— Baltasar Gracian

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

— Orison Swett Marden

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

— George Mikes

I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the…

— Charles Krauthammer

Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in…

— William J. Clinton

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument…

— Adam Smith

Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural…

— Will Tuttle

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

— Megan Whalen Turner

There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Love and respect a woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense…

— Jeremy Corbyn

Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

— Mason Cooley

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within…

— Alexis de Tocqueville