Quotes About Comparison

In the history of art, unlike that of science, what comes after is not necessarily better than what came before.

True, its people were much better off in material terms at the end of the century than at its outset, but man's sense of well-being depends upon comparison with others as well as upon his absolute condition.

Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction.

Looked at absolutely, we must frankly acknowledge that we have fallen very far short indeed of the high ideal we should have reached. Looked at relatively, it must also be said that we have done better than any other nation or race working under our conditions.

No one could fail to be impressed with the immense advance these men represented as compared with the native negro; and indeed to an American, who must necessarily think much of the race problem at home, it is pleasant to be made to realize in vivid fashion the progress the American negro has made, by comparing him with the negro who dwells in Africa untouched, or but lightly touched, by white influence.

STOP COMPARING YOURSELF WITH OTHERS

How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves.

It is no harm to thee if thou place thyself below all others; but it is great harm if thou place thyself above even one. Peace is ever with the humble man, but in the heart of the proud there is envy and continual wrath.

If thou hast any good, believe that others have more, and so thou mayest preserve thy humility. It is no harm to thee if thou place thyself below all others; but it is great harm if thou place thyself above even one. Peace is ever with the humble man, but in the heart of the proud there is envy and continual wrath.

Truly all human glory, all temporal honour, all worldly exultation, compared to Thy eternal glory, is but vanity and folly.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want

First, a man of sense would have known that a single experiment is not sufficient to establish a general rule even in sciences much less complicated than the science of government; that, since the beginning of the world, no two political experiments were ever made of which all the conditions were exactly alike; and that the only way to learn civil prudence from history is to examine and compare an immense number of cases.

Why Your Dog Is Happier Than You Are

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

for it happens that books are the only article of property in which I am richer than my neighbors.

With the first issue of 'Weasel,' I was even aware myself that I'd improved. I still have affection for my earlier stuff, but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as 'Weasel.'

No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.

Obviously I've grown up around YouTubers, people getting millions of hits, but I was never anywhere near that.

Hubble has established for the first time that the distant universe looks different from the nearby universe.

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.