It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty. This is pristine natural beauty. it is… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Students sometimes turn up at my course and they look a bit like they're going to Bali with only Wellingtons and a… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A fantastic analogy for the power of focus is racing cars. When your car begins to skid, the natural reflex is to… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Most people lose money because of lack of emotional discipline -the ability to keep their emotions removed from investment decisions. Dieting provides… — Victor Sperandeo Copy Share Image
And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
You have so much going on. It comes off like a..." "Static?" I suggested. "Exactly!" He snapped his fingers and pointed at… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy.… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple,… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
“And one of my firmest conclusions is that we always think by seeking and drawing parallels to things we know from our… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that… — John Green Copy Share Image
As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I think zombies are the great analogy for all of our fears about all of the scary things that happen on our… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If I was to really get at the burr in my saddle, it's not politics - and this is, I think, probably… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
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