Superior Quotes - page 2

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. (Giorgio Vasari)
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. View quote
Harold Geneen
It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics. so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them. View quote
Steve Martin
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. View quote
Elie Wiesel
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks. View quote
Benjamin Graham
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation. View quote
Václav Havel
For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have. View quote
John Steinbeck
The man who prefers his country before every other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the State. They both deny that right is superior to authority. View quote
John W. Campbell
Regrettably, one of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down. View quote
Pauline Kael
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men - they are far superior and always have been. (William Golding)
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. View quote
Confucius
True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. View quote
Mark Twain
Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined. View quote
Richard Koch
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. View quote
Aristotle
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. View quote
Albert Einstein
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world. View quote
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. (Charles Cooley)
The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it's really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not. View quote
Chris Van Allsburg
Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances. View quote
Todd Solondz
We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union. View quote
Theodore C. Sorensen
Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism. View quote
Walter Lang