Comparison Quotes

587 quotes by 527 authors

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. — Francis Bacon
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest… — Francis Bacon
I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by… — Erykah Badu
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison. — Bob Barr
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
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. — Brendan Behan
Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see… — Annie Besant
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
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Bodett
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the… — Bertolt Brecht
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. — Lord Byron
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. — Thomas Carlyle
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. — Giacomo Casanova
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by… — Jacques Monod
All this knowledge of the objective world is of no value in comparison to having a little glimpse of the inner sky and its beauty… — Rajneesh
The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the… — Sun Tzu

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