Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old metaphor quotes, metaphor sayings, and metaphor proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.Richard Whately
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Metaphor is embodied in language.Dennis Potter
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.Jacob Bronowski
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The power of the metaphor is that in a single flash the entire idea is revealedG.R. Gopinath
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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
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Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.Richard Rohr
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.Georg C Lichtenberg
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The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.Pierre Bourdieu
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The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.Antisthenes Pinto
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Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.Jose Bernardo
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Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.Milan Kundera
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Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.Robin Morgan
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Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.Aristotle
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Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.James Russell Lowell
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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.Chuck Palahniuk
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A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.Matthew Woodring Stover
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.Gilbert K Chesterton