Superiority Quotes · Page 10

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and…

— Van Wyck Brooks

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

— William Feather

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.

— P. G. Wodehouse

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

— Baltasar Gracian

As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to enter into a state of pure connection with your child, you can achieve this by setting aside any…

— Shefali Tsabary

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

— Mencius

I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow…

— Edward Abbey

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

— Megan Fox

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

— Peter Matthiessen

It would be nice if we could manage to get on the same level, but I'll never get that low and you'll…

— Anonymous

Some build their sense of personal worth by comparing themselves to others. That approach can lead to feelings of inadequacy or superiority.…

— Quentin L. Cook

“Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.

— Sun Bin

Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

— Martin Heidegger

Self-righteousness and self-pity both lead to self-destruction.

— Tasneem Hameed

“Election has nothing to do with the eternal salvation of individuals but refers instead to God's way of saving nations. It was…

— Clark H. Pinnock

Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our…

— Samuel Johnson

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

— Wendell Willkie

All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our…

— Doris Lessing

Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority…

— Rajneesh