Superior Quotes

1050 Superior quotes by 742 unique authors

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior. — John Churton Collins
After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not… — D. H. Lawrence
We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our… — John of Salisbury
In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race. — Edward Abbey
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result… — Mercy Otis Warren
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior… — George Washington
My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege… — Jacques Barzun
Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability… — Will Durant
The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of the German working… — Karl Marx
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second… — Thucydides
Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which… — Giorgio Vasari
More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary]… — Michael Moorcock
A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill. — Frank Borman
Grace is more than mercy and love. It super-adds to them. It denotes, not simply love, but the love of a sovereign, transcendent Superior. One… — Thomas Goodwin
The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further… — Emile M. Cioran
I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of… — Paul Watson
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And… — Alcibiades

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