Quotes about Comparison

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

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.

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.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray

If we idolize our theological system, we must demonize other theological systems.

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.

Comparison is the death of joy.

We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them.

I think that the people that say we will never develop computer intelligence — they merely prove that some biological systems don't have much intelligence.