Quotes About Analogy

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car

I'm like a ripe stool, and the world's like a gigantic anus, and so we're about to let go of each other.

I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland ' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.

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Analogical thinking makes what is alien intelligible or what is insignificant significant, by bringing it within the sphere of the already known-as stones to teeth.

As the nineteenth-century philosopher Henry David Thoreau put it, "All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

just cus your cat had kittens in the oven don't make em biscuits

This analogy can also be found in Jon Pahl, Empire of Sacrifice (New York: New York University Press, 2010), 20. [19]

As we Italians say, the husband is like the government at Rome, all pomp; the wife is like the mafia, all power.

Since you cannot mix wolves with sheep, why would anyone dare to compare a lion with the lamb?

The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with the following analogy. He says that by reading a few short verses, we are like someone glimpsing nature through window from across the room. But by taking in more lengthy passages of Scripture, we are like someone who, intrigue, gets right next to the window to take in more of the view that it offers, basking in more of the arc of the whole the whole narrative.

will begin with the analogy of the rose. In the smell of the rose, there is hardly a fragrance that can compare with its beauty. But how would you describe this fragrance? The way we would describe it is that it is closer to the word and feeling of love than any other flower on the Earth

Well, you know what they say: Finding the right analogy is as hard as…" I put on a thoughtful expression. "As hard as…" I made an inarticulate grasping gesture.

Well, you know what they say: Finding the right analogy is as hard as…

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God is as real as a station wagon.