Quotes about Analogy

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The closest analogy, the one her brain reached for and rejected and reached for again, was splashing into a lake. It was — James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man. — Thiruvalluvar, Holy Kural - Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations
Claiming "the budget can't allow it" reminds me of when you walk into a restaurant at a civilized hour like ten o'clock — Bill Maher, When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
Pure analysis puts at our disposal a multitude of procedures whose infallibility it guarantees; it opens to us a thousan — Henri Poincaré, The Value of Science
The sutras liken reincarnation to the relationship between teachers and students. A singing teacher teaches students how — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, Not For Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices
Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before — Plato
We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culmin — Asa Gray, Letters of Asa Gray V2
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compou — Grove Karl Gilbert
Modern man has successfully razed the imaginative landscapes of primal peoples the whole world over. Kill the gods first — Grant Morrison, Doom Patrol, Vol. 6: Planet Love
Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more o — Bill Maher, When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave — Ursula K. Le Guin
Don't you agree? Swordplay is a dance of sorts, an understanding of the logical, most sophisticated next step. Except th — Lisa Tawn Bergren, Waterfall
It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yiel — Thomas Jefferson
Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something. — J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He doesn't hear the im — Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the — Sheldon L. Glashow
Under the pathologist's microscope, life and death fight in an illuminated circle in a sort of cellular bullfight. The p — Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal
Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by — Tom DeMarco, Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored ro — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are to — Olivier Magny, Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure