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147 Analogy quotes by 134 unique authors

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every… — Gerhard Richter
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world.… — Unknown Author
Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one… — Georges St-Pierre
In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are… — Robert Musil
Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves on the ocean.… — Anderson Cooper
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. — Sigmund Freud
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. — Benjamin Disraeli
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. — George Eliot
I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature. — Philip Emeagwali
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids… — Jonathan Safran Foer
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom.… — Lukas Foss
The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other… — Werner Heisenberg
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body. — Muhammad Iqbal
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. — Elon Musk
Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as… — Thomas Nagel
If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of… — Henri Poincare
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word. — Herbert Read
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather… — Susan Sontag
As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt… — Arlen Specter
I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world,… — Anais Nin
You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds… — Cassandra Clare
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier… — John Updike
The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy, nor… — Steve Toltz
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from… — Bill Watterson
All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of… — Russell Brand

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