Best Analogy Quotations
147 Analogy quotes by 134 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
— Sigmund Freud
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
— George Eliot
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
— Elon Musk
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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