We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another.
The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.
I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.
He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.
Superiority - doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.
As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things
What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness. . . is discipline, consciousness, and unity.
Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.
What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything.
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
I just can't see either a man or a woman in a dependency position, because from this sort of relationship flows a feeling of superiority on one side and inferiority on the other, and that's a form of slow poison. As I see it, men wouldn't want somebody inferior to them unless they felt inadequate themselves. They're intimidated by a mature woman.
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.
There is no such thing as human superiority.