It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population. – Edward Sapir
Holocaust denial, once the preserve of fringe conspiracy theorists, has mutated into Holocaust obfuscation, equivocation, and specious comparison on a larger scale than ever. – Ephraim Mirvis
A villain can be stylish, and his actions don’t have to be explained. Heroes are boring in comparison, even anti-heroes, as there’s always a justification for their bad actions. – Dhanush
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. – Nicolaus Copernicus
The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today. – Marty Meehan
Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented – putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine. – Nathan Myhrvold
A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement. – Francis Crick
The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn’t hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today. – Nick Mason
Life – and I don’t suppose I’m the first to make this comparison – is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. – Neil Gaiman
We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison. – Marilyn Ferguson
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I’d always seen myself as a duffer by comparison. – Mary Quant
Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. – Jerry Garcia
The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. – John Gunther
Apple makes really good products, and Samsung makes really good products. It’s really a two-horse race. Where I think Apple is exposed: the price points of Apple’s products are just so high by comparison with Samsung’s. – John Sculley
I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. – John McCain
The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison. – Karl Marx
I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you’re brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison. – Jonathan Miller
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. – Milton Friedman
I like to think I’m pretty close in comparison to Aaron Rodgers. He’s very athletic and gets the ball out quickly. He’s very knowledgeable of the game, controls the offense totally, and that’s something I try to do. Just know the offense inside and out. – Jimmy Garoppolo
A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life. – Saint Ambrose
If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it’s a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed. – Richard Rogers
It is fair to say the New Testament is the most ethically sophisticated of the great scriptures; the proper comparison for the Qur’an is with the Old Testament – against which it holds its own. – Sebastian Faulks
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image. – Octavio Paz
My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own. – Sandra Day O’Connor
Machismo requires Latin blood. I’d say I never experienced machismo up close until I worked in a French office; the typical Wall Street gunner has the soul of a coffee filter in comparison. – Rosecrans Baldwin
There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did. – Owen Hart