Analogies Quotes

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Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

Proof by analogy is fraud.

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Life is like an analogy.

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

Desperate times call for desperate analogies.

Analogy is even slipperier than logic.

I do not understand this analogy," Mencheres muttered.

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.

Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

E-books are impervious to analogy.

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.

You like that analogy? That was pretty good?

Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

Outside of our relationship with the Lord, marriage is right next to it. It's an important relationship and you hear that analogy all the time. There's no better one than that for sure.