Analogies Quote by Anna Brownell Jameson

“analogy to illustrate this phenomenon”

— Anonymous

An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on

— Gillian Jacobs

Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements.

— George Polya

Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy…

— Konrad Lorenz

A metaphor is like a simile.

— Steven Wright

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy,…

— Mary Hesse

Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt…

— Tony Rothman

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

— James Geary

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

— Richard Whately

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

— Robin Morgan

“Finding your own metaphor for intuition is one of the best ways to give it form, an essential step in developing your intuitive thinking.”

— Laurie Nadel