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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.
Difference is not equated with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving.
If somebody has too much stress about their appearance, they can overcome their inferiority complex through surgery.
For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.
When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.
Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.
I'm sometimes surprised by myself: no matter how much time has passed, I wasn't able to accept my inferiority complex. But I did.
There should be a tacit code or understanding among privileged people not to endorse things that give others an inferiority complex.
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.
We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.
Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't.
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.
When it comes to personal appearance, people are quick to cast judgment on people who look better than them. It's part of the human inferiority complex.
I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one
I was aware of the pressure of my mom and not just my mom but my entire family. I was very aware of that reality, so it was almost this inferiority complex.
When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.
I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.
I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young.
The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.
I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.
What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has.
It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
I always had an inferiority complex, like I wasn't good enough. I was shy. But dancing gave me so much joy, and I was good at it. I felt like a whole person because I could dance.
If a show is wickedly, hugely popular, like 'Mad Men,' I assume that the masses, in their infinite inferiority to me, don't know what good TV is and that everyone is just brainwashed.
My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they actually are inferior and they secretly know it.
One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.
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.
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.