Superiority Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

“My son, be rich and live your own life! Tell yourself that you're the incarnation of an ancient aristocracy. Model yourself on the feudal…

— Colette

The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for…

— Charles M. Schwab

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

— Woodrow Wilson

“The greater a student the greater his master.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything…

— Ellen Kushner

“I try not to look like a university man here…My fellow-guests think of a university degree as a disgraceful preliminary to the blood-sucking life…

— Eilis Dillon

“Not to value and employ men of superior ability is the way to keep the people from rivalry among themselves;”

— Lao Tzu

“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,…

— Henry James

“It's for us that the University exists, for the dispossessed of the world; not for the students, not for the selfless pursuit of knowledge,…

— John Williams

“Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.”

— George Will

“The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. [“The Power of Christian Young Men”, Address at…

— Woodrow Wilson

“Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do. They are driven by instincts which are not within their control. They too,…

— Virginia Woolf