Analogies Quote by John Searle

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

“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

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

“Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they…

— Chandler Burr

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

— Denis Leary

I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the…

— Steven Pinker

We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

— Anonymous

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

— James Geary

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

— Richard Dawkins

“Our brains are meaning machines. What we understand as “meaning” is generated by the associations our brain makes between two or more experiences.”

— Mark Manson

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

— George Lakoff