A metaphor is something that bears a grand meaning. All things have their own metaphor. This is a collection of 32 quotes on metaphor and metaphor sayings.
Early human thought proceeded by metaphor. - Gerald Edelman
Through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. - William Carlos
Williams
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. - Orson
Scott Card
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of
patterns. - James Geary
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in
terms of another. - George Lakoff
Metaphor is one of a group of problem solving medicines known as figures of
speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases. -
Grant Morrison
A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good. - Scott Adams
They say the eyes are the window to the soul. - Wendy Mass
Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations. - Robert
Breault
Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us poets and non-poets alike to
experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways. - James Geary
Science is all metaphor. - Timothy Leary
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor! - George Eliot
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. - Robert McKee
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a
sea of seeming. - Roberto Bolaño
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. - Paul de Man
A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no
one could drink from it without gagging. - Barry Lyga
Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal. -
Wallace Stevens
Metaphor is embodied in language. - Dennis Potter
The power of the metaphor is that in a single flash the entire idea is
revealed. - G.R. Gopinath
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. - Gilbert K Chesterton
The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects. - Pierre Bourdieu
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace. -
Aristotle
Metaphors are the weapons of cowards. - Jose Bernardo
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man. - José
Ortega y Gasset
Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art. - Twyla Tharp
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry. - Jacob
Bronowski
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has
utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside
us. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth. - Matthew Woodring Stover
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other
challenges in your life. - Jeff Bridges
Language is memory and metaphor. - Storm Jameson
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of
memories, a voice. - Jane Smiley
Metaphor matters because it creates expectations. - James Geary
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