Quotes About Comparison

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Es ist die Angst vor der Frage, wie weit ich entfernt bin von dem, was er ist. Ob wir uns im Wesen unterscheiden oder nur im Stadium.

For all the intrinsic meaning of the word kilometer, we might just as well say that "we're moving toward Leo at three pizzas and a cabbage per walrus.

It doesn't matter how badly you paint as long as you don't paint badly like other people

Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?

Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable.

When you're jealous, your spit turns to acid. When you're jealous, you eat yourself from the inside out

Wax was good. Wax was soft. Wax couldn't shatter like china. Wax was as beautiful as china.

Those who exclaim that "animals are not people" tend to forget that, while true, it is equally true that people are animals. To minimize the complexity of animal behavior without doing the same for human behavior erects an artificial barrier.

At the time, science had declared humans unique, since we were so much better at identifying faces than any other primate. No one seemed bothered by the fact that other primates had been tested mostly on human faces rather than those of their own kind.

In a world divided by chimpophiles and bonobophiles, we all had a good laugh when Stephen peeled his banana. (62)

Primates arouse a certain nervousness because they show us ourselves in a brutally honest light, reminding us,.....that we are mere 'naked apes.

Would anyone test the memory of human children by throwing them into a swimming pool to see if they remember where to get out? Yet

Nuestros sentimientos de felicidad dependen de la comparación entre los ingresos propios y los ajenos.

Estar resentido por el éxito de otro puede parecer mezquino, pero a la larga evita que abusen de uno.

The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. —Charles Darwin

What is the largest land mammal doing with three times as many neurons as our own species?

True empathy is not self-focused but other-oriented. Instead of making humanity the measure of all things, we need to evaluate other species by what they are.

The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. —Charles Darwin (1871)

Charles Darwin's well-known observation that the mental difference between humans and other animals is one of degree rather than kind.

In Arabic linguistic usage, we are told, the interpretation of "water" as knowledge is confirmed by the common fi gure of speech that calls a man of vast knowledge an "ocean." Moreover, the comparison of water and knowledge suggests that just as those who would sail the sea without a ship would drown in it, those who look for knowledge among those who do not have it will perish.

The truth is that our competition is anyone our customers compare us to.