#superiority

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#cured #honesty #humility #only #person

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#artillery #assistance #confident #corps #enemy

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#depends #experiences #mind #organised #over

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#doing #greed #hostility #lot #motive

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. ↗

— William Shenstone

#apprehension #envy #fear #our #superiority

Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#superiority #humor

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#control #dispute #empowerment #intelligence #men

Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#hero-worship #horses #love #riding #superiority

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense. ↗

— Criss Jami

#human #human-nature #judging #judgmental #logic

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get. ↗

— Robert Buettner

#fighting #human-nature #human-superiority #humanity #unfairness