A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

- James Geary

Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

- James Geary

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

- James Geary

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

- James Geary

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

- James Geary

You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.

- James Geary

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

- James Geary

London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, …

- James Geary

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

- James Geary