Quote by Sydney J. Harris

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character.”

— Charles Bayard Mitchell

“What a man dislikes in his superiors, let him not display in the treatment of his inferiors.”

— Tsang Sin

“A successful man never allows his faulty of discrimination and judgement to be distributed by the rising tides of his emotions.”

— Gian Kumar

“Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride he knew, because it was the most destructive…

— Paulo Coelho

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they…

— Saint Bernard

“The sulker is a complicated creature, giving off messages of deep ambivalence, crying out for help and attention, while at the same time rejecting…

— Alain de Botton

“When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.”

— John Calvin

“Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who tucks himself…

— Ernest Becker

“If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coal-miner.”

— George Orwell

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky