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Quotes About Inferiority

As a matter of fact, in our personal lives, as in the lives of all peoples, inferiorities are not to be considered as the source of all evil. Only the situation can determine whether they are assets or liabilities.
~ Alfred Adler
I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
We compare everything with what is being done in the West. Even the film reviews are written like that. It is sad because we are trying to belittle ourselves.
~ Pankaj Kapur
Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
~ Orson Welles
The only reason you would hate to be compared to 'Fleabag' is if you were said to be 'not as good as Fleabag'.
~ Sara Pascoe
I'm surrounded by geniuses, which is really not good for my own personal self-esteem!
~ Aisha Tyler
Europeans, since the days when they began to believe in :progress" and in "evolution," that is to say since a little more than a century ago, profess to see a sign of inferiority in this absence of change, whereas for our part, we look upon it as a balanced condition which Western civilization has failed to achieve.
~ Rene Guenon
It didn't help that Carlos was always badmouthing himself as a neurotic. I had to agree with him. Like the psychiatrist who told his patient: Don't worry about having an inferiority complex. You're inferior.
~ Richard de Mille
Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism thinking (whereas it's really your ego's narcissistic reaction to the moment). You'll position things to quickly as inferior or superior, with me or against me, and most of the time you'll be wrong.
~ Richard Rohr
Betsy: You gentlemen stand around and look tough while I do an astral reconnaissance. Fantomex: I confess to feeling inferior in the company of such a gifted telepath. But for you, Warren, to be so.. dependent. It must be emasculating. Warren: Oh yeah, it's a real hardship. Worst part is all the sex it leads to. Terrible stuff to endure.
~ Rick Remender
the Germans have got to be stopped. They think they're entitled to rule the world!" Da said: "We're British. Our empire holds sway over more than four hundred million people. Hardly any of them are entitled to vote. They have no control over their own countries. Ask the average British man why, and he'll say it's our destiny to govern inferior peoples.
~ Ken Follett
I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
~ Yulia Tymoshenko
It were all oneThat I should love a bright particular starAnd think to wed it, he is so above me.
~ William Shakespeare
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
~ William Shenstone
Au diable la reconnaissance si elle est dispensée par des gens qui ne t'arrivent pas à la cheville.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Can we keep ourselves open to the experience of nonnormativity as something other than inferiority, deviancy, and intolerable aberrancy (a mere ableist projection of the pathologizing fantasies of normativity)?
~ David T. Mitchell
?Let your pretence of arrogance grow big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you.
~ Abhijit Naskar
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
~ Ayn Rand
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
~ Max Frisch
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
~ William Shenstone
Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.
~ Emily Post
Envy suggests inferiority.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.
~ Mme. De Puisieux
Po?i oare s? te sustragi timpului t?u? Po?i s? fii superior sau inferior, po?i s? lup?i împotriva lui cum încetasem noi s? o facem: pân? la urm? el te prinde îns?, ?i te înseamn? cu pecetea lui.
~ Jean d'Ormesson