The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.
— Criss JamiEnvy suggests inferiority.
— Wayne Gerard TrotmanWe are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.
— Craig D. LounsbroughThe advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.
— Jane AustenIf only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.
— Criss JamiInferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated stories... Courageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values!
— Israelmore AyivorLd heads forgetful of their sins,Old, learned, respectable bald headsEdit and annotate the linesThat young men, tossing on their beds,Rhymed out in love’s despairTo flatter beauty’s ignorant ear.They’ll cough in the ink to the world’s end;Wear out the carpet with their shoesEarning respect; have no strange friend;If they have sinned nobody knows.Lord, what would they sayShould their Catullus walk that way?
— W.B. YeatsAn inferiority complex distorts reality.
— Sunday AdelajaThe moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.
— Daphne du MaurierThe details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.
— James Baldwin