Top 280 Analogy Quotes & Sayings

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.

Analogy is even slipperier than logic.

Shari'a is not just the Qur'an, you see Shari'a is comprised according to all the doctrines. There's consensus and analogy - argument by analogy. These are the four components in the Shari'a. An orthodox Sunni would not accept that the Shari'a was simply comprised of the Qur'an itself and actually there are people who say that it's heretical to believe that. They have to say that because if they don't say that then they would have to accept that, for example, stoning is not a punishment which appears in the Qur'an - it doesn't.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.

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

Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from now.Every theory is based on some analogy, and sooner or later the theory fails because the analogy turns out to be false. A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.

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

The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.

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.

It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.

Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.

If al-Qaida, all apologies to Microsoft for the analogy, is Windows 1, Daish is Windows 5.

The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression.

You like that analogy? That was pretty good?

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.

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

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

Life is like an analogy.

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

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

Almost every work of art is an analogy. 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. I prefer to steer clear of anything aesthetic, so as not to set obstacles in my own way and not to have the problem of people saying: 'Ah, yes, that's how he sees the world, that's his interpretation.'

Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.

I think zombies are the great analogy for all of our fears about all of the scary things that happen on our planet, and the potential for scariness on our planet. Being chased by anyone or anything can be scary. It is just a big, fun analogy.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

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.

When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be.

E-books are impervious to analogy.

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

Analogy cannot serve as proof.

Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken?

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

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.

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.

About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process.

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

There's a real feel-good warmth to the show [The Flash]. It feels like you're watching, for lack of a better analogy, Friends mixed with Spider-Man or Batman.

There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.

I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.

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?

Analogy and allegory always seem to be a much more expressive way of reflecting reality. I think Star Trek team have this ability to represent through analogy and extending things to the scientific extreme. They comment on things that are very present in a really powerful way.

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

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

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.

Proof by analogy is fraud.

The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

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

... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since more is known about the analogy than is known about the subject matter of the theory itself ... A collection of observable concepts in a purely formal hypothesis suggesting no analogy with anything would consequently not suggest either any directions for its own development.

People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

I do not understand this analogy," Mencheres muttered.

Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.