Superior Quotes

There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.

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

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.

Defense is superior to opulence.

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

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether.

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.

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