Comparison Quotes

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No man is happy but by comparison. — Thomas Shadwell
In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens… — Walter Raleigh
Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. — Rajneesh
Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody… — Rajneesh
From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes… — Rajneesh
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as… — Arnold Bennett
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and… — St. Jerome
The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or,… — Eustace Budgell
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences. — Mikhail Gorbachev
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself… — Stephen Covey
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its… — Dag Hammarskjold
I don't compare myself to Lil Kim. I'm not doing anything in comparison with any girls. I'm doing Nicki Minaj. — Nicki Minaj
[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings forth one package… — Rudolph Schoenheimer
For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really good comparison to… — Richard Phillips
In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up.… — Sugata Mitra
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… — George Muller
A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with… — Saint Ambrose
The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a… — Virat Kohli
I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold. — Joe Bastianich
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free… — Neil MacGregor

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