The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams

The object of the superior man is truth.
Confucius

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
John Milton

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
Don Shula

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Confucius

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Confucius

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius

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

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
Thomas Malthus

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.
James Welch

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da Vinci

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Patricia Meyer Spacks

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
James F. Cooper

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
Edward Young

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Samuel Richardson