Mental Superiority Quotes

He who labors with his mind rules over he who labors with his hand

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

I don't like to say it, but I don't care, I'm a real-life genius.

They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.

The little Napoleons in UMNO try to keep out people who are more intelligent than themselves.

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.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Power, before it comes from arms or wealth, emanates from ideas.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

Nine times out of 10 the smarter or mentally focused fighter comes out on top.

You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number.” “Er, five,” said the mattress. “Wrong,” said Marvin. “You see?