Comparison Quotes

We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

Put light against light - you have nothing.

Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.

I not only think but also look and study things carefully.

When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what I see. I don't accept things at face value, you cannot trust what you hear or see. Don't jump to conclusions without thinking.

I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.

We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose.

My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation;

in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord Jesus tarry... The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world;

there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Success and excellence are not the same.

Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life.

How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

The artist must paint as he would speak.

I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

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

Comparison is the death of joy.

I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States.

Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life.

It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph.

It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

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Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to.

Comparison is an act of violence against the self.

We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.

Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways.

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I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison.

Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.

There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not.

It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed.