Superiors Quotes - Page 35

• Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.

  Adela Popescu

  Selfish, Animal, Intelligent

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• A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Anger, Men

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• A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sheep, Littles, Sometimes

  Benjamin Franklin (1945). “Autobiographical writings”

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• Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Foxes, Weak, Tact

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.38, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.

  Leigh Hunt

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fashion

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.164

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• Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

  William Shenstone

  Hope, Men, Palaces

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.135

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• Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Judging, Facts, Painting

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1939). “The literary works of Leonardo da Vinci”

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• The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

  Garrison Keillor

  Happiness, Men, Shallow

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• Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony

  Blaise Pascal

  Faith, Silent, Deny

  Richard Watson, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Raffles, Francis Augustus Cox, Andrew Fuller (1826). “The Christian library: A reprint of popular religious works”, p.539

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• I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.

  Joseph Hall

  Suffering, Strive, Found

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• Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Order, Doe

  Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

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• For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not - but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes - bad, if he always stays in the same place.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Art, Travel, Men

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• Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Philosophy, Men, Animal

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• The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance.

  Tom Robbins

  Skills, Way, May

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.137, Bantam

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• I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Fire, Self, Secret

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• I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.

  Wilkie Collins

  Thank God, Thankfulness, Reason

  Wilkie Collins (1874). “The Moonstone: A Novel”, p.187

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• The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Book, Excellence, Speech

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.88, M.E. Sharpe

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• We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Use, Remember, Materials

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• Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Junk, My Favorite, Rice Krispies

  International Herald Tribune, August 08, 1978.

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• The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Ideas, Clothes, Arbitrary

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

  Chanakya

  Grief, Son, Fire

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• Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.

  Simon Blackburn

  Garden, May, Way

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• The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Expression, Conception

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• The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved his essential race characteristics. He is not, of course, superior to climatic influences; but even in warm climates, he is likely to retain his aggressive vigor long enough to supplant races already enfeebled.

  Josiah Strong

  Race, Long, Generations

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• You have to believe in what you're doing. In the long run, you have to feel that what you're doing, regardless of the trends, will have a lasting quality. Someday someone may pick it up and recognize that it was superior.

  Will Barnet

  Running, Believe, Long

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