Everyone Quote by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Download Open image “Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.” — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Everyone Idea Important Knows Metaphors No idea Why
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. — John Green Copy Share Image
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves… — James Geary Copy Share Image
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery. — OMI Copy Share Image
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds. — James Geary Copy Share Image
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors don't believe… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
I think it's a wonderful thing, turning 50. I think everyone should do it at least once. — Elvis Duran Copy Share Image
I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. — Ludwig Erhard Copy Share Image
Not having drops and not taking plays off, if I do that it will make everyone around me better. — Demaryius Thomas Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Paradise,' it was going to be an interlude - like a segue from the song before. Then I just added more… — MNEK Copy Share Image
Our whole thing was that we wanted to challenge ourselves and go out of the box that everyone else was doing, and even what… — B-Real Copy Share Image
If I serve good and play aggressive from the baseline, I can beat everyone. — Karolina Pliskova Copy Share Image
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