Superior Quotes

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

The object of the superior man is truth.

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.