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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man ubderstands what will sell.

Quote by Confucius about philosophy, commerce, man, rightness

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

Quote by Hank Aaron about miracle, ability, contentment, life

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about society, woman, being, man

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about man

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about sex

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about gratitude, revenge, pain, pleasure

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Quote by Cesare Pavese about ambition, sin, origin, common sense, sense

Being envious means to recognize your inferiority.

Quote by Gaius Plinius Secundus about envy, being

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Quote by Mary Shelley about opinion, virtue

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Quote by Irving Layton about opinion, intelligence, contentment, things

The envy, confessed or not, is always a sign of inferiority.

Quote by Simion Mehedinþi about envy

Apparently the average man sees woman alternately as an inferior being and as an angel.

WQuote by Willa Muir about face, angels, woman, being, man