Comparison Quotes

587 quotes by 527 authors

What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us. — Edward Kennedy
Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal… — Stephen Jay Gould
Personality begins where comparison ends. — Karl Lagerfeld
The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column seem… — John Allen Paulos
Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot… — Albertus Magnus
We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We… — Richard Baxter
For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations. — Roderick Murchison
We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear… — Elizabeth Ann Seton
Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison… — Abraham de Moivre
What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge… — Agnes Mary Clerke
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough… — Carl Ludwig
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… — Benjamin Bratt
The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it. — George Whitefield
Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being. — Rajneesh
Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with… — Friedrich Schleiermacher
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates… — Michael Leunig
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second. — Bernard Berenson
Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely? — E. C. Bentley
I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing. — Elizabeth Bowen

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