Abstract Quotes

741 quotes by 602 authors

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret… — Max Born
People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration. — Joe Bradley
I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to… — Joe Bradley
I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level… — Karl Ove Knausgard
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in… — Chuck Thompson
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. — Oliver Sacks
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are… — William Hazlitt
Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right. — William Hazlitt
The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the… — Bill Vaughan
Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or… — Karl Marx
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society… — Alfred North Whitehead
The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the… — Alfred North Whitehead
The abstract kills, the concrete saves. — Sylvia Plath
I grew up a faithful person. I never lost faith. I prayed every day all throughout my life. But at some point in life, my… — Carly Fiorina
The body should not just be something you see. It's also the inside of it. It's frightening and abstract and much more than pretty or… — Jenny Hval
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. — Lucian Freud
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace… — William Gibson
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. — Newt Gingrich
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot… — Temple Grandin
There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator. — Brian Greene

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