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Quotes About Superior

One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
~ Rene Dubos
If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.
~ Erich Hartmann
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
~ H. L. Mencken
Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.
~ Giulio Douhet
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
~ John Churton Collins
Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Smart, hard-working people aren't exempted from professional disasters of overconfidence. Often, they just go aground in the more difficult voyages they choose, relying on their self-appraisals that they have superior talents and methods."39
~ Janet Lowe
Mere display left her with a sense of superior distinction but she felt an affinity to all the subtler manifestations of wealth.
~ Edith Wharton
ingratitude, the customary reward for superior merit.
~ Edward Gibbon
Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.
~ Albert Einstein
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
~ Albert Einstein
A blonde woman, be she dull or anything else, appears superior to any brunette.
~ Albert Memmi
If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute; the intention of the People to the intention of their agents.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Going forward, we are mindful of the challenges we face in the competitive retail landscape, but we have demonstrated that our concept of building compelling brands that focus on the customers' lifestyles can produce superior results. We will not waver from that concept.
~ Richard Hayne
If superior abilities and services to society deserve special rewards it may be regarded as axiomatic that the rewards are always higher than the services warrant. No impartial society determines the rewards. The men of power who control society grant these perquisites to themselves.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
seria ilusório imaginarmo-nos com dimensão para criticar Shakespeare. Pode acontecer, ao contrário, que seja o inverso. Em vez de tentar julgá-lo de um ponto de vista 'moderno' necessariamente superior, deveríamos tentar encontrar algumas das suas intenções maiores que manifestamente nos escapam. Só podemos tê-las perdido -- Deus sabe onde e quando. A menos, bem entendido, que estejam ainda por desvendar
~ Rene Girard
Subotai, the commander of the invasion of Europe, the Mongols had a commander far superior to any European commander who had taken the field in the preceding two centuries.
~ Richard A. Gabriel
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. If superior creatures from space ever visit earth, the first question they will ask, in order to assess the level of our civilization, is: "Have they discovered evolution yet?"
~ Richard Dawkins
Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not scientific statements--and this is untrue.
~ Richard Rhodes
She was the one always pretending to have finished anything anyone happened to be reading; and she was the only one with this notion that the way to demonstrate your superior reading was to go around telling people the plots of novels they were in the middle of.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.
~ Alexander P. de Seversky
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.
~ Aristotle