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title: "Top Abstract Qoutes"
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> [We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-robinson/we-think-about-the-world-in-all-ways-we-experience-it-we-think/)

[Ken Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-robinson/)

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> [What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/what-i-mean-by-abstract-is-something-which-comes-to-life/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-chagall/)

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> [Wisdom in groups emerges as a product of commitments we make with ourselves and to each other. These stances are not abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-briskin/wisdom-in-groups-emerges-as-a-product-of-commitments-we-make-with/)

[Alan Briskin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-briskin/)

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> [Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-joubert/combien-de-gens-se-font-abstraits-pour-para-tre-profonds-la-plupart/)

[Joseph Joubert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-joubert/)

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> [Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-rushkoff/many-billboards-and-magazine-ads-have-resorted-to-showing-isolated/)

[Douglas Rushkoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-rushkoff/)

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> [I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-stroman/i-know-a-lot-of-choreographers-prefer-to-do-abstract-dance-and-not-be/)

[Susan Stroman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-stroman/)

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> [The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/the-notion-that-a-story-has-a-message-assumes-that-it-can-be-reduced/)

[Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ursula-k-le-guin/)

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> [ When asked ... \[about\] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niels-bohr/when-asked-about-an-underlying-quantum-world-bohr-would-answer-there/)

[Niels Bohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niels-bohr/)

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> [ \[T\]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/t-he-man-who-in-the-concrete-pressure-of-a-struggle-for-national/)

[Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/)

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> [Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-m-zahl/plain-experience-and-common-sense-inform-us-that-no-abstract-person/)

Paul F. M. Zahl

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> [The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-klein/the-presentation-of-mathematics-in-schools-should-be-psychological/)

[Felix Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-klein/)

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> [Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-c-solomon/sexuality-is-primarily-a-means-of-communicating-with-other-people-a/)

[Robert C. Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-c-solomon/)

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> [In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anjan-sundaram/in-abstract-mathematics-or-abstract-art-the-purpose-is-to-describe/)

[Anjan Sundaram](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anjan-sundaram/)

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> [Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/love-is-never-abstract-it-does-not-adhere-to-the-universe-or-the/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/all-men-in-the-abstract-are-just-and-good-what-hinders-them-in-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/by-instructing-students-how-to-learn-unlearn-and-relearn-a-powerful/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/nature-or-that-which-i-see-inspires-me-puts-me-as-with-any-painter-in/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piet-mondrian/)

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> [I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-hepworth/i-felt-the-most-intense-pleasure-in-piercing-the-stone-in-order-to/)

[Barbara Hepworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-hepworth/)

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> [Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathryn-lasky/thinking-in-particular-abstract-thinking-which-most-of-us-are/)

[Kathryn Lasky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathryn-lasky/)

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> [The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orison-swett-marden/the-trouble-with-us-is-that-we-expect-too-much-from-the-great/)

[Orison Swett Marden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orison-swett-marden/)

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> [My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/my-interest-in-desperation-lies-only-in-that-sometimes-i-find-myself/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

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> [I think games are a good medium for approaching any subject, particularly difficult ones, because by their very nature, they are abstract,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-brathwaite/i-think-games-are-a-good-medium-for-approaching-any-subject/)

[Brenda Brathwaite](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-brathwaite/)

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> [Let your works not be interrupted by the stupidities happening in your own country! Work and walk on your true path ignoring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mehmet-murat-ildan/let-your-works-not-be-interrupted-by-the-stupidities-happening-in/)

[Mehmet Murat Ildan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mehmet-murat-ildan/)

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> [It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-fenollosa/it-is-a-mistake-to-suppose-with-some-philosophers-of-aesthetics-that/)

Ernest Fenollosa

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> [The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/the-man-who-knows-governments-most-completely-is-he-who-troubles/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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> [Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-reitman/can-you-design-a-rorschach-test-that-s-going-to-make-everyone-feel/)

[Jason Reitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-reitman/)

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> [Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/men-agree-that-justice-in-the-abstract-is-proportion-but-they-differ/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-gallagher/at-times-we-would-have-these-whole-cities-that-would-take-up-rooms/)

[Ellen Gallagher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-gallagher/)

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> [Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-crane/although-a-lot-of-my-work-on-the-mind-has-been-rather-abstract-and/)

[Tim Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-crane/)

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> [The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-vygotsky/the-most-significant-moment-in-the-course-of-intellectual-development/)

[Lev Vygotsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-vygotsky/)

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> [My stories often begin with a situation or character rather than an insight about the human condition. It's always been difficult for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-iagnemma/my-stories-often-begin-with-a-situation-or-character-rather-than-an/)

[Karl Iagnemma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-iagnemma/)

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> [ \[My work\] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolas-provost/my-work-looks-very-cinematic-because-it-s-not-abstract-video-art-it-s/)

Nicolas Provost

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> [Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/honor-de-balzac/virtue-my-pet-is-an-abstract-idea-varying-in-its-manifestations-with/)

[Honore de Balzac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/honor-de-balzac/)

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> [I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/i-think-we-re-much-smarter-than-we-were-everybody-knows-that-abstract/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

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> [The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-feynman/the-real-question-of-government-versus-private-enterprise-is-argued/)

[Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-feynman/)

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> [An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/an-artist-should-create-beautiful-things-but-should-put-nothing-of/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-bagehot/we-think-of-euclid-as-of-fine-ice-we-admire-newton-as-we-admire-the/)

[Walter Bagehot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-bagehot/)

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> [There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dewey/there-is-no-such-thing-as-educational-value-in-the-abstract-the/)

[John Dewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dewey/)

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> [I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/i-am-against-the-line-and-all-its-consequences-contours-forms/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

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> [Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/abstract-art-was-the-quivalent-of-poetic-expression-i-didn-t-need-to/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

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                        "text": "[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.",
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                        "text": "Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.",
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                        "text": "In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own imagination and our capacity for creativity. While this has some applications in the world, I think it leads to a distance from the world. Going to Congo was for me an act of seeking proximity, of breaking that distance. With abstraction, which is brilliant and vain, you divorce yourself from any kind of proximity to other people.",
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                        "text": "Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to the singular sparrows of the street, the lilies of the field, \"to the least of these my brethren.\" Love is not, by its own desire, heroic. It is heroic only when compelled to be. It exists by its willingness to be anonymous, humble, and unrewarded.",
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                        "text": "By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction—how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'",
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