A Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Harriet Beecher Stowe
American - Author
June 14, 1811 - July 1, 1896

There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

Ann Landers

There can be no such thing as Superiority when We Are All One. A thing cannot be superior to itself. All things are One Thing, and there is nothing else. When you understand this, you begin experiencing life - and treating each other - in a new way.

Neale Donald Walsch

Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man.

Stanley Tucci

If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.

Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart

We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.

Bill Vaughan

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

Baron de Montesquieu

Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.

Stefan Zweig

Feeling superior doesn't make one superior. Hubris does not humble others.

Guy R. McPherson

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

Wallace Shawn

I didn't know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother's going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it. Nowadays, he lives in a world we don't understand too well, the actor's world. We don't see too much of him. But he's a good boy, my Jim. A good boy, and I'm very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He's not easy to understand. But he's all man, and he'll make his mark. Mind you, my boy will make his mark.

James Dean

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

Sir Fulke Greville

Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority of love. No logic can be higher than love, and no mind can be higher than the heart. But the mind can be very murderous; the mind can be very violent, and that's what the mind has done for centuries. Man has been beating women, repressing women, condemning women.