Abuse Quote by Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

“Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it is not a mere figure of…

— Connie Willis

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through…

— Socrates

All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the…

— Umberto Eco

“Metaphor has a devilish way of blinding us to the truth.”

— Ka Wai Cheung

The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple…

— Winston Churchill

... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But…

— Max Black

“Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by a false…

— G. Willow Wilson

“Metaphors are lies.”

— Mark Haddon

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

— Max Black

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought ,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

— Anne Carson

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

— Ray Bradbury