Comparison Quotes

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lies, Behind, Inside

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Religion, Remember

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
Marilyn Monroe

Home, Between, Playing

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Children, Lose

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm

Dreams, Sleep, Nothing

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Max Frisch

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx

Everything, Done, General

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon

Lost, Trying, Between

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
Milton Friedman

Experience, Test, Hypothesis

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
Stendhal

Love, Death, True

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler

Science, Light, Reading

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Others, Easy, Importance

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
Albert Pike

Doubt, Reason, Progress

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Jerry Garcia

Life, Death, Matter

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
Neil Gaiman

Life, Disease, Sexually

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
Douglas Horton

Happiness, Past, Present

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.
Kathryn Bigelow

Else, Purpose, Soldiers

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Gerald Jampolsky

Love, Fear, State

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
Emile Durkheim

Dreams, Reality, Seems

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Best, Second, Says

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.
John Cusack

Yourself, Judge, Bad

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Thinking, Public, Within

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
Thomas Hobbes

Laughter, Nothing, Others

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
Felix Mendelssohn

Music, Words, Soul

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
Maimonides

Power, Respect, Greatness

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Earth, Indeed, Size

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Understand, Special, Place

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Beauty, Relation

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
Vin Diesel

Beautiful, Father, Everything

I'm OCD beyond comparison.
Fred Durst

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