Quotes on Superiority

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

Author: Alfred Adler

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Author: William Channing

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Author: Leonard Cohen

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Author: Mary Douglas

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

Author: Stephen Gould

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

Author: Graham Greene

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Author: Sydney Harris

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

Author: Alice James

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Author: Henry James

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

Author: George Lewes

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

Author: Georg Lichtenberg

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.

Author: El Lissitzky

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Author: Lawrence Lovasik

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Author: Orison Marden

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

Author: Moses Mendelssohn

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.

Author: Kelly Miller

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.

Author: Hu Shih

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

Author: Peter Singer

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Author: Adam Smith

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

Author: Kim sung

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

Author: George Washington