The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No matter how many mistakes you've made, you're ahead of people who aren't trying. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Selfishness may result in one's sense of superiority, but life as such will surely deny them.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. — Kim Il-sung Copy Share Image
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“More than ever we must move, move, move and constantly create superiority. We’ll open up the pitch and we’ll look for the… — Guillem Balague Copy Share Image
If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than… — Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart Copy Share Image
Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external.… — Charles Rollin Copy Share Image
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic… — John Clayton Copy Share Image
“There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent spirit, in making a person pre-determined to dislike, acknowledge one's superiority.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right.… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Our culture's response to egotism is as misguided as our approach to inadequacy. When people feel and act as if they're better… — Ellen Tadd Copy Share Image
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves.… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“For some people, the time differentials established in youth never really disappear: the elder remains the elder, even when both are dribbling… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Getting ahead of oneself is simply a habit of putting a good head on his shoulder to go over the fad. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority. — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority. — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
