Similarity Quotes

• Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Differences
  • Similarity

• The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

  

  Aristotle
  • Genius
  • Thing
  • Master

• I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Artist

• The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters, rascally, fornicators, that's a similarity to Greek mythology, for instance, you know. They're not saints, they're not saints. They're powerful. It's why they're not tyrannical. Of course, a number of them are also very, you know, benevolent, you know, there are saintly virtues to be found in them.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Powerful
  • Virtue
  • Greek

• Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Cases
  • Familiar
  • Dull

• Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • American
  • America
  • King

• But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

  

  Cherrie Moraga
  • Difference
  • Similarity
  • Oppressors

• We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Together
  • Differences
  • Bases

• And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • Today
  • Elements
  • Obvious

• The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Small
  • Bigs
  • Lines

• Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other.Not a few things merely, one or two, or half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that makes them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's origin

  

  B. H. Roberts
  • Book
  • Serious
  • Facts

• I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Men
  • Common
  • Punk

• Postwar America would bear no more similarity to prewar America than the Restoration Monarchy bore to Revolutionary France; what would emerge would be a vast, impersonal juggernaut of industrial cartels, a mountainous administrative bureaucracy and a prestigious military junta—and beneath these, far beneath, an emotional and highly subservient citizenry whose attitudes and actions would be created, aroused, manipulated, subverted by the roar of the mass media … it was so clear! Why couldn’t the dunderheads see it? Whoever could see it—whoever rode this wave deftly, keeping just ahead of its boiling crest—would hold the future securely in his fine right hand

  

  Anton Myrer
  • America
  • Post-war
  • Prewar

• One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Humans
  • Differences
  • States

• When we look for differences instead of similarities, we create barriers for trust.

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Looks
  • Differences
  • Barriers

• The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many.

  

  Dennis Stock
  • Photography
  • Camera
  • Concern

• I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

  

  Todd English
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Action

• Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is the best thing to do? In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view...but you always want to be counterattacking...a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.

  

  Barney Chavous
  • Picture
  • Chess
  • Strategy

• Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past.

  

  Ernest King
  • War
  • Past
  • Military

• All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Different
  • Science
  • Differences

• In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Play
  • Differences
  • Range

• A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Women
  • Heart
  • Senses

• Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Violence
  • Similarity

• ...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or of the spatial properties of relationships of actual bodies is intended, and any similarities between the primitive concepts and their customary geometrical connotations are purely coincidental.

  

  Carl Gustav Hempel
  • Body
  • Property
  • Mathematical

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