Quotes About Comparison

Christianity's focus on grace rather than works makes it a far more accessible religion than Judaism in a practical sense. The commandments of Judaism are intricate and difficult. Christianity dispensed with the need for them. Faith is paramount.

The percentage of Democrats teaching in the university system closely parallels the percentage of communists in the Cuban government.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

It therefore comes to pass that everyone is fond of relating his own exploits and displaying the strength both of his body and his mind, and that men are on this account a nuisance one to the other.

Creo que en el interior de cada hombre cuelga un retrato estilizado de la mujer ideal, un modelo con el que comparar a esta o a aquella mortal de carne y hueso que sostiene entre sus brazos.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?

The English in politics are as the old Hebrews in religion, a favoured and peculiar people.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

He that is conscious of a Stink in his Breeches, is jealous of every Wrinkle in another's Nose.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox.

The proud hate pride – in others.

If "good" is not necessarily good, and "bad" not necessarily bad, what is "small"?

If you compare the City with the Forest, you may begin to wonder why it's man who goes around classifying himself as The Superior Animal. "Superior to what?" asked Pooh. "I don't know, Pooh. I've tried to think of something, but I just can't come up with an answer." "If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world," said Pooh.

Gathering, analyzing, sorting, and storing information—these functions and more the mind can perform so automatically, skillfully, and effortlessly that it makes the most sophisticated computer look like a plastic toy by comparison. But it can do infinitely more.

If you compare the City with the Forest, you may begin to wonder why it's man who goes around classifying himself as The Superior Animal. "Superior to what?" asked Pooh. "I don't know, Pooh. I've tried to think of something, but I just can't come up with an answer." "If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world," said Pooh. "That's true," I said.

man who goes around classifying himself as The Superior Animal. "Superior to what?" asked Pooh. "I don't know, Pooh. I've tried to think of something, but I just can't come up with an answer." "If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world," said Pooh.

I can't imagine any fairminded future person feeling there was an important moral difference between the Soviet gulag and the American one.

Ich bin eben kein Erzähler wie du.

the Arab world is more than five hundred times the size of the Jewish state.

I settled on a game called I am a contribution. Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side. It is not arrived at by comparison.