Analogies Quote by Elon Musk

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea,…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

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

The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.

— Myles Munroe

First-principles thinking sets goals in known terms and then pursues them, inventing and learning new things as necessary, but it rarely uncovers brand new…

— Bryan Johnson

“Whereas reason is commonly viewed as the use of logic, or at least some system of rules to expand and improve our knowledge and…

— Hugo Mercier

It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy…

— Samuel Johnson

Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

When people say, 'From first principles... ' to start their argument, what they mean is that they wish to assume as few things as…

— Bryan Johnson

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

— William Hazlitt

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

— Seneca the Younger

Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was…

— Thomas Nagel

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley