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Superiors Quotes

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

"Nobel-winning biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini dies at 103" by Frances D'Emilio, www.nbcnews.com. December 30, 2012.

Becoming is superior to being.

Paul Klee, Will Grohmann (1985). “Paul Klee”, Harry N. Abrams

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

"De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties" by Claude Adrien Helvetius, translated by William Mudford, (p. 21), 1807.

. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.

"The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon, the Naturalist". Book by Robert Buchanan, on a meeting with a young artist, Mr. J. B. Kidd, Ch. X, p. 140, 1868.

Peace through superior firepower.

David Weber, John Ringo (2001). “March to the Sea”, p.135, Baen Books

Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.535

How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!

John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.226, Univ of Wisconsin Press