"Though analogy is often misleading, it is the……" — Samuel Butler
"Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have."
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Samuel Butler
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228 Quotes by Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler has 228 quotes on this site.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to…
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till…
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will…
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come…
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for…
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them…
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he…
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More Analogy Quotes
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A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies…
— Stefan Banach
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The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot…
— Giacomo Casanova
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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all…
— A. R. Ammons
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About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected,…
— Humphry Davy
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The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of…
— Arthur Koestler
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Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy…
— Gerhard Richter
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[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order,…
— William Lawrence Bragg
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... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering…
— Mary Hesse
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The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for…
— Unknown Author
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