Psychology Quote by Jeff Vandermeer

“The mind always wants to categorize and compare,”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

There's something to me with categorization - it stops you from thinking about the thing that is actually happening.

— Ana Lily Amirpour

“And one of my firmest conclusions is that we always think by seeking and drawing parallels to things we know from our past, and…

— Douglas Hofstadter

“Some analogies are so useful that they don’t merely shed light on a concept, they actually become platforms for novel thinking. For example, the…

— Chip Heath

“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”

— George Lakoff

“Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Analogy and allegory always seem to be a much more expressive way of reflecting reality. I think Star Trek team have this ability to…

— Lydia Wilson

“words, for our brains, reality equals relevance.”

— David DiSalvo

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery,

— James Geary

To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.

— St. Jerome

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by…

— John Searle