Quotes About Comparison

The little fever of envy, once caught, is the ruin of all happiness.

It is pointless to construct a hierarchy of who hurt more, and whether one kind of pain was more or less justified than another.

Seemed like no matter how much money people had, they were desperate to have more, desperate to look good compared to everyone else. Why bother to impress when all anyone else cared about was how impressive THEY were?

standards. I don't think Oliver would have

It turns out that knitting has taught me that good things come in all sizes, and the size doesn't matter, as long as you're happy with what you've got.

In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

Jealousy knows more than truth does.

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.

You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.

Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.

He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).

Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark

Personality rise as comparison dies.