Quotes on Inferiority

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Author: Alfred Adler

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Author: Alfred Adler

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Author: Alfred Adler

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Author: Alfred Adler

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

Author: Simone Beauvoir

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

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

Author: Marcus Cicero

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

Author: Marilyn French

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Author: Jose Gasset

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Author: Samuel Johnson

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

Author: John Keane

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

Author: Peter Matthiessen

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Author: Cesare Pavese

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.

Author: Edward Sapir

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

Author: Ed Smith

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

Author: Sun Tzu

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

Author: Carter Woodson

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

Author: Carter Woodson