Comparison Quote by Gaston Bachelard Download Open image “Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.” — Gaston Bachelard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comparison Comparison Diminishes Diminish Diminishes Diminishes Expressive Expressive Expressive Qualities Quality Term Terms Comparison
I think it's possible to a certain extent to make those comparisons. The problem is the detail with which the comparison can be made.… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
The comparative strength of each piece depends entirely on circumstance; their movements are so different that it is essentially impossible to effectively compare them… — Daniel Naroditsky Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we know only by comparing, by drawing distinctions from and similarities to what we already know. But when we use our terms of… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made… There is only this strange recognition of present otherness. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Comparison is often why our important roles shrink to seem so insignificant. Comparison robs us of the joy of obedience.” — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
“In other words, when testing a hypothesis of similarity, people look for evidence of similarity rather than dissimilarity, and when testing a hypothesis of… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print. — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves? — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief executives who have come before him and not be measured against… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Barbara Kolb Copy Share Image
I think the first person to call me 'Britain's Obama' was Martin Bright at the New Statesman. Harriet Harman made the comparison once at… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in… — Anuj Copy Share Image
The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London… — Clive James Copy Share Image
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