#analogy

Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#joy #fun

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#draco-malfoy #harry-potter #neville-longbottom #ron-weasley #stupidity

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#resentment #bad

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

#independence #miracle #nationality #physical #political

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#another #belong #cannot #fallacy #languages

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. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#analogy #believer #believers #between #church

One good analogy is worth three hours discussion. ↗

— Dudley Field Malone

#discussion #good #hours #three #worth

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

— Herbert Read

#came #derived #equity #evidence #first

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

— Samuel Butler

#least #misleading #often #thing #though

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. ↗

— John Searle

#adding #analogy #attribute #cars #cognitive