#comparison

Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise — absence of self-assertion or self-consciousness — the faculty of standing apart without seeming aware that he was alone — a balance of mind and temper that neither challenged nor avoided notice, nor admitted question of superiority or inferiority, of jealousy, of personal motives, from any source, even under great pressure. ↗

— Henry Adams

#humility #education

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#am #any #comparison #happy #i

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#comparison #easy #importance #others #our

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#creed #intelligible #light #me #much

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. ↗

— Alan Watts

#badly #between #comparisons #constellations #into

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#comparison #front #inside #lies #you

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony. ↗

— Elizabeth Fishel

#death #harmony #knell #sibling

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#act #awake #comparison #doings #dream

In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless. ↗

— Hugh MacLennan

#comparison #else #everything #human #human being

People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#developers #different #fields #games #good