Quotes about Comparison
My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they had seen me failing miserably at woodwork or cross-stitch.
— Abhijit Banerjee
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
— Ann Voskamp
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. (He laughs.) Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. (Pause.) Let us not speak well of it either. (Pause.) Let us not speak of it at all.
— Samuel Beckett
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
— Samuel Johnson
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
— Samuel Johnson
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
— Samuel Johnson
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
— Samuel Johnson
How soon will some few years pass away, and then when the day is ended, and this life's lease expired, what have men of the world's glory, but dreams and thoughts? O happy soul for evermore, who can rightly compare this life with that long-lasting life to come, and can balance the weighty glory of the one with the light golden vanity of the other.
— Samuel Rutherford
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
— Mark Twain
Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray
— Madeleine L'Engle
If we idolize our theological system, we must demonize other theological systems.
— Mark Driscoll
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
— Mark Twain