Top 10 Metaphorical Quotes

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Names, Reaching, Metaphorical

Leonard Bernstein (1976). “The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

Religion, Mystery, Metaphorical

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification

Artist, Language, Metaphorical

Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.61, Univ of California Press

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

Stories, Metaphorical

Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

Writing, Scientist, Metaphorical

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

Language, Metaphorical, Humans

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.

Real, Economy, Metaphorical

Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.213, Ballantine Books

A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.

Weight, Fowl, Metaphorical

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

Perception, Metaphorical, Rooted

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

Metaphorical

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Metaphorical Quotes