Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

I don't like seeking all the attention. When you start doing stuff like that, it gets into your head, you are not being yourself.

— Anthony Rendon

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

— Richard Russo

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I don't see those paintings as abstractions, especially because they are emblems of the inkblot. They aren't smashed together; they are constructed shape-by-shape, layer-by-layer,…

— Kerry James Marshall

For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions.

— Paulo Coelho

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

— David Foster Wallace

Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.

— Sendhil Mullainathan

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such…

— Anonymous

It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with…

— Peter Kreeft

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

— Johan Huizinga

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions.”

— Angela Harris

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

— Philipp Meyer

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who…

— Antonio Damasio

“In our own time, algebra has become the most rarefied and demanding of all mental disciplines, whose objects are abstractions of abstractions of abstractions,…

— Anonymous