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Superiority Quotes

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

Vanna Bonta
Inferiority, Superiority Complex, Complexes

There is no such thing as human superiority.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Humans, Superiority

As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent

Jose Raul Capablanca
Chess, Superiority

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

Graham Greene
Laughing, Solitary, Superiority
1982 Monsignor Quixote, pt.1, ch.9.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Goodness, Knows, Superiority

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Philip Wylie
Inferiority, Individual, Superiority
"Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.

Deb Caletti
Insecurity, Mask, Superiority
Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do

Christopher Paolini
Men, Mind, Superiority

Superiority is always detested.

Baltasar Gracian
Superiority

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

John Donne
Men, Ants, Superiority
John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.491

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

Baltasar Gracian
Mediocrity, Application, Superiority

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

Wendell Willkie
Tolerance, Assumption, Superiority

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.

Stephen Colbert
Atheism, Dedicated, Superiority

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

Samuel Johnson
Rise Above, Eminence, Superiority
Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.62

Beauty is a natural superiority.

Plato
Beauty, Natural, Superiority
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

I don't think I have a superiority complex. I have a "you're not Thom Yorke" complex.

Thom Yorke
Thinking, Superiority Complex, Complexes

I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love Is, Superiors, Superiority
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, May Byron, William Hazlitt, James Gillman (2015). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge”, p.362, e-artnow

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

Sophie Swetchine
Friends, Enjoy, Superiority

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Natural, Nobility, Superiority
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.243

Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed!

Mehmet Murat Ildan
Past, May, Superiority

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Remedy, Superiority

Eternal superiority of the Dandy. What is the Dandy?

Charles Baudelaire
Eternal, Dandy, Superiority
Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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