Analogies Quotes

“Analogies are lies grown-ups tell.”

— Brent Weeks

Life is like an analogy.

— Aaron Allston

Analogy cannot serve as proof.

— Louis Pasteur

“Proof by analogy is fraud.”

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Desperate times call for desperate analogies.

— John Diamond

“Analogies are like lies.”

— Roman Payne

You like that analogy? That was pretty good?

— Shaquille O'Neal

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

— Douglas Hofstadter

“Language is nothing but a huge set of false analogies”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

— James Bryce

“The day I met a friendly ghost was the day I came up with better analogies.”

— Karina Halle

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

— Abraham Lincoln

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

— Sigmund Freud

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

— Henry David Thoreau

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

— Plutarch

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of…

— Charles Hodge

“I delved especially into black writers. Their analogies were relevant to my own experiences, and I understood them better for that.”

— Tepilit Ole Saitoti

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

— G. M. Trevelyan

I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I…

— Charles Soule

But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying…

— Isocrates

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or…

— Herman Melville

“She has all the right equipment to look sexy, pretty even. She just overdoes everything-like she's a coloring-book women who got scribbled…

— Bonnie Shimko

But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to…

— Aristotle

To me the analogy [to climate change] is... doctors worry a lot about cholesterol. And if you go to the doctor, and…

— Bill McKibben

ou can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote…

— Michael Faraday

People need to understand that what happens in people's homes and behind closed doors, unless you were there, you really shouldn't make…

— Charlize Theron

For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for…

— George Andrews

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME…

— Elisabeth Leamy

We have said that consciousness is an operation rather than a thing, a repository, or a function. It operates by way of…

— Julian Jaynes

The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced…

— Richard van der Riet Woolley

He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an…

— John Robert Seeley

A fantastic analogy for the power of focus is racing cars. When your car begins to skid, the natural reflex is to…

— Tony Robbins

These various forms appear different in shape and size, yet they are of a single essence. . . . The Sixth Patriarch…

— Dennis Merzel

The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed…

— Thomas Huxley

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how…

— Gerda Lerner

There are just a host of problems born by the electronic age. Things we couldn't even conceive of. I was amused by…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg