Superiors Quotes - Page 17

• When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Believe, Evil, Drunk

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• One of the hardest things to live with in any relationship is criticism, real or implied. Criticism is a form of humor for them, and they enjoy feeling superior when they see someone else's discomfort.

  Robert E. Wells

  Real, Feelings, Criticism

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• A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Believe, Discipline

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

  Plotinus

  Faith, Wisdom, Infinite

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• By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we ourselves have ceased to question.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

  Georg Simmel

  Average, Personality, Mysterious

  Georg Simmel, Otthein Rammstedt (2008). “Gesamtausgabe”

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• War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Blessing

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.236, Algora Publishing

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• The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

  Confucius

  Wise, Character, Men

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• I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.

  Benjamin Graham

  Opportunity, Order, Technique

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• The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Art, Past, Player

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• I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.

  Alexander Alekhine

  New York, Believe, Victory

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• The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.

  James F. Cooper

  Government, Long, Office

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• Tactics flow from a superior position

  Bobby Fischer

  Chess Game, Tactics, Flow

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• The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.

  Desmond Morris

  Powerful, Animal, Ideas

  "Rose-Tinted Menagerie" by William Johnson, (p. 10), 1990.

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• Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Evil, Agents

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• The Holy Ghost serves . . . as a revelator, revealing great, new, and important truths. God, with his infinite knowledge and power has developed a system of communication far superior to anything mortals have yet developed or even conceived. Through the Holy Spirit, he is able to communicate with his children instantly, individually, and personally.

  Daniel H. Ludlow

  Children, Communication, Knowledge And Power

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• Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

  James Madison

  Party, Rights, Justice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.42

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• The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Lying, Political

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• A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Men, Self

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• It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature.

  Maurice Strong

  Attitude, Responsibility, Light

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• The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.

  Confucius

  Men, Purpose, Way

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• Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

  Jeannette Rankin

  Women, Home, Rights

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• As everyone knows, there is no intelligence in coercion or forcing another into action or realization. And if the name of the galactic game is superior, intelligent harmonization, it must be played so that the local intelligence is taught or shown how it works in such a manner that it comes to its own conclusions. In other words, the galactic code of honor is to manifest and demonstrate harmony by whatever means possible.

  Jose Arguelles

  Mean, Intelligent, Games

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• We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Learning, Intellectual, Ignorant

  "Daniel Boorstin" by Godfrey Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2004.

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• Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Humanity, Democracy, Money Power

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