Superiority Quote by Edgar Rice Burroughs

“He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish…

— Gregory Maguire

“He was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to their hearts,…

— Gregory Maguire

“At that moment he understood, far better than he had before when he studied their histories and their political structures before he arrived, what…

— Sean DeLauder

“He was beholden to no one, and would never take on trust what others might maintain to be true without himself coming to an…

— Richard Feynman

“Like all tyrants, he believes he himself always acts with the utmost fairness.”

— Lisa Jensen

“So what was better for us all? An ignorance, or a cautiousness like his, towards our own hearts.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“He was conscious only of the mightiest deed of man; the complete and almost contemptuously final conquest of a world.”

— Isaac Asimov

“It was not a matter, mind you, of the certainty I had of being more intelligent than everyone else. Besides, such certainty is of…

— Albert Camus

“He doubted everything with an air of superiority--a great power in the eyes of the weak.”

— Victor Hugo

“A great many people, he had noticed, spent large parts of their time worrying about things they were powerless to alter. Had they concentrated…

— Setterfield Diane

“from self-complacency, and therefore he acquires superiority.”

— Lao Tzu

“but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the necessity of self-denial and humility, he feared…

— Jane Austen