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For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it… — Bill Viola
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such… — John Searle
I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy.… — Elon Musk
One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a… — Jeff Bezos
By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery, — James Geary
One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not… — Susan Blackmore
In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that… — John Gribbin
But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of… — Isocrates
Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy… — Niklaus Wirth
The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the… — Richard van der Riet Woolley
After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting… — Michael Mandelbaum
Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms. — Eliphas Levi
Oversoul Seven grimaced at Cyprus and began the examination. 'Let's see,' he said, 'In Earth terms, using an analogy, I'm a man on Wednesday and… — Jane Roberts
If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them… — Ian Holloway
Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key,… — Georges Seurat
A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push a little harder.… — James Dyson
These various forms appear different in shape and size, yet they are of a single essence. . . . The Sixth Patriarch called it "essence… — Dennis Merzel
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy. — Henry David Thoreau
When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the… — Albert Hadley
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things.… — Roger Caillois
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies. — Joel Hodgson
[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm… — Danny Hillis
A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing… — Vaclav Smil
But, did the Divinity [of Christ] suffer? [...] The holy fathers explained this point through the aforementioned clear example of the red-hot iron, it is… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit. — Wendell Berry

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