Own Superiority Quotes
9 quotes by 8 authors
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
— Van Wyck Brooks
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Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming,…
— Will Tuttle
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But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and…
— Vissarion Belinsky
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How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the…
— Van Wyck Brooks
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The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much…
— Moses Mendelssohn
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Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not recall an anecdote…
— Gene Lees
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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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She holds herself with such reserve. She smiles, but the smile doesn't reach her eyes, even in the company of the girls she's chosen to…
— Lauren Myracle
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As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of…
— Mohsin Hamid
Who Wrote These Own Superiority Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 9 Own Superiority Quotes as follows: