Analogies Quote by Thomas Reid

Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

— Alexander Pope

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

— Francis Bacon

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it…

— Andre Weil

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

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

— Edward Thorndike

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

— William Shakespeare

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a…

— Bertrand Russell

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different…

— Michel de Montaigne

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

— Francis Bacon

If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware.

— John A. Sanford