Quotes with inferior

  • I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
  • The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.
  • Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
  • The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
  • Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.
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  • Sigmund Freud The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Alan Kay Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
    Alan Kay
    American computer scientist (1940 - )
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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Confucius The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Philip Larkin Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Anna H. Shaw Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Abu Bakr Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • John W. Foster Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Anthony Powell Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
    Anthony Powell
    English novelist (1905 - 2000)
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  • Jeremy Taylor He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Edmund Burke I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • William Butler Yeats I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Robert Hewison If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
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  • Gloria Steinem If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Luminous quotations alone, by their interest, for the dullness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Adam Grant Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.
    Adam Grant
    American author and professor (1981 - )
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