Comparable may refer to:
- Comparability, in mathematics
- Comparative, in grammar, a word that denotes the degree by which an entity has a property greater or less in extent than another
Famous quotes containing the word comparable:
“I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.”
—Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)
“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth ... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one’s future must be hewn.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)