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Life is like an analogy.
Proof by analogy is fraud.
Analogy cannot serve as proof.
E-books are impervious to analogy.
Analogy is even slipperier than logic.
Life is like a box of terrible analogies.
You like that analogy? That was pretty good?
No historical analogies are exactly precise.
Desperate times call for desperate analogies.
I do not understand this analogy," Mencheres muttered.
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on
Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.
Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.
Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.
It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.
The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.
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.
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
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.
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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.
Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.
I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.
Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.
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.
Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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.
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.
I tried to explain as much as I could," Poppet says. "I think I made an analogy about cake." "Well, that must have worked," Widget says. "Who doesn't like a good cake analogy?
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.
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.
For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.
One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk.
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
We own the Federal Reserve. There is this misconception that the Federal Reserve is some private entity. But if I might give an analogy here, we - U.S. taxpayers - own all the stock in the Federal Reserve.
Sam Harris made that great analogy. He said, 'If someone was talking into their hair dryer and claiming that they were speaking to God, they would call Bellevue. But, take away the hair dryer, it's just praying.'