Figurative Thinking Quotes

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.

It's not in my nature to be too literal.

ou can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote figures respecting the earth, sun, and all sorts of things — for I think that is the true way (corrected by judgment) to work out a discovery.

When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for the word 'broccoli.' They see it for what it looks like, the image. We, as adults, forget to think like that. We forget to think figuratively and have to be reminded.