Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.
J.K. RowlingTags: stupidity harry-potter analogy ron-weasley draco-malfoy neville-longbottom
Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.
Aravind AdigaLe savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas plus une science qu'un tas de pierres n'est une maison.
The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Tags: science inspirational facts analogy order scientist
And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.
Umberto EcoTags: reason analogy proposition negation critical-reasoning inference
Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity
Stephen KingTags: paradox war disapproval analogy aggression pacifism motto
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
Yann MartelComputer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes
Edsger W. DijkstraWithout inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.
David ArchuletaTags: inspirational inspiration simile analogy thoughts
You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped to her waist.
Lily KingTags: analogy
truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo TolstoyTags: wisdom knowledge ignorance analogy refinement
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