Top 1200 Superior Intelligence Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.

It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.

If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

So if we can't express it or repress it, what do we do when we feel angry? The answer is to recognize the anger, but choose to respond to the situation differently. Easier said than done, right? Can you actually imagine trying to strong-arm your anger into another, more amicable feeling? It would never work. Determination alone won't work. It takes a new intelligence to understand and manage our emotions. By getting your head and heart in coherence and allowing the heart's intelligence to work for you, you can have a realistic chance of transforming your anger in a healthy way.

Paradoxically, we have become so ethnocentric in our relativism that we feel it is only okay for others - not us - to think their religion is superior!

True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station.

It's an incredible feeling for an owner or trainer to know they've got a superior race horse on their hands. You can tell when you have a really good one.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

A man could and would wipe me off the court. I really feel that the male is naturally superior to the female in all endeavors.

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesnt get trashed.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.

Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.

The downsides of globalization are indeed painful, ... But taking the bigger pills against its ills is superior to living inside a sterile bubble.

To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.

Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

If wars were won by superior technology alone, the United States would not have been vanquished in Vietnam or waylaid in Afghanistan.

Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony

Health is a presence of a superior state of wellbeing, a vigor, a vitality, a pizzazz you have to work for every single day of your life.

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

There is no such thing as a 'superior' or 'inferior' culture, there are only various cultural patterns which make up this beautiful, multicolored mosaic.

There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn't get trashed.

I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.

'Perfect justice rules the world' for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives.

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.

In practice, conservatives are no less inclined than liberals to adopt superior stances or to tell people how to live their lives.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

There are now unmistakeable signs of a trend in favor of superior products at premium prices. The consumer is not a moron, she is your wife.

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.

I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education. If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer through the changes. If they think money will solve the problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride. Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.