What is inferior?

Famous quotes containing the word inferior:

“To have more virtues than talents is to be a superior person; to have more talents than virtues is to be an inferior one.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.”
—Anthony Powell (b. 1905)