Quotes About Superiority

It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invisible companion. ... I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning, I read because I loved it more than any activity on earth.

Cultural humility" acknowledges that doctors bring the baggage of their own cultures—their own ethnic backgrounds along with the culture of medicine—to the patient's bedside, and that these may not necessarily be superior.

De cele mai multe ori, oamenii proÈ™ti nu pot suporta gândul c? alÈ›ii fac ceva mai bine ca ei.

Stupid people usually can't bear it when others do something better than they do;

Stupid people usually can't bear it when others do something better than they do ...

It is most comfortable to be invisible, to observe life from a distance, at one with our own intoxicating superior thoughts. But comfort and isolation are not where the surprises are. They are not where hope is.

Resentments make even the best of us feel superior.

One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!

By morning, I realized that I was his complete superior and I had been sadly cheated in having him for a teacher.

Being powerful and successful on earth through evildoing was not a true mark of superiority.

It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.

Unlike criticism, contempt is particularly toxic because it assumes a moral superiority in the speaker. Contempt is often directed at people who have been excluded from a group or declared unworthy of its benefits.

Unlike criticism, contempt is particularly toxic because it assumes a moral superiority in the speaker.

When you're the best in the world, you share the benefits (the income, the attention, the privileges, the respect) with just a handful of people or organizations or brands.

It was a basic tenet of faith with men of Ranulf's class that a knight, trained in the ways of war since boyhood, could easily vanquish lesser foes, as much a belief in the superiority of blood and breeding as in the benefits of battle lore and killing competence. Ranulf had accepted this comforting conviction, too, but no one seemed to have told his assailants that they were inferior adversaries.

He believed that his superior intellect mattered more than his physical defects and saw no reason why he must defer to these fortunate young men with handsome faces and healthy bodies and empty heads.

Hey, aren't we forgetting something? (Savitar) Your dignity? (Takeshi) No, you have me confused with you again. Aren't you supposed to be training him? (Savitar) So you admit my superiority by deflecting my attention to the neophyte. (Takeshi)

A what? (Fang) Badass demon with a superiority complex who picks his teeth with bones of infants. Let's just keep it simple and say he's a demon I want out of the human realm. ASAP. (Thorn)

You think because you are born of light that you're somehow better and kinder than those who aren't, but you're not. It merely makes you feel entitled in your wrongful actions against others. But, you're no better than my mother. If anything you're worse because you think your viciousness is justified...

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.

He) committed the cardinal sin in a college atmosphere not only of being different but of being different in a way that left a lot of people with the impression that he thought he was better than they were.

It was ten against ten. So, as Svengal later recounted, it was no contest. He had the enemy outnumbered three to one.

Jij bent beter dan Crowley.' Hij zou nog verbaasder geweest zijn als hij had geweten wat Halt daar achteraan dacht. Waarschijnlijk ben je zelfs beter dan ik.