The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun.
'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority.
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.
People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.
Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.
The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.
I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.
To talk about the superiority of an ethnic group on the basis of some points of difference on IQ tests is idiotic.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.
The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.
No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.
Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.
I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.
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.
What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.
Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.
Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.
Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.
The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.
Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.
I love it when people try to manufacture an injustice out of a position of clear superiority.
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.
What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.
This site uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience.
More info...