Superiority Quotes

397 Superiority quotes by 314 unique authors

The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. — Thorstein Veblen
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which… — Stephen Covey
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other. — Samuel Johnson
We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying… — Samuel Johnson
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing,… — Alexander Herzen
The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective… — Richard M. Nixon
Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority of love. No… — Rajneesh
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. — Frank Muir
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him… — Clifford Truesdell
How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Respect your haters. They're the only ones who think you're better than them. — Nicki Minaj
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all… — Tryon Edwards
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving… — Humphry Davy
To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority in… — Fredrick Hatfield
Air superiority is a condition for all operations, at sea, in land, and in the air. — Unknown Author
Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power. — Winston Churchill
A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally… — Victoria Woodhull
As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent — Jose Raul Capablanca
What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything. — Werner Erhard
For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise… — Robin Winks
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you… — Henepola Gunaratana
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. — Jonathan Haidt
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race,… — Alexander Smith

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