Abstract Quotes

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My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that Iâ€™ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still there. . .… — David Foster Wallace
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art… — Marcel Proust
Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the… — David Lynch
life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur.… — Cecelia Ahern
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. — Deepak Chopra
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication. — Allan Bloom
And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first. — D. H. Lawrence
He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters?… — Peter Shaffer
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean â€œMore people diedâ€ donâ€™t say â€œMortality rose. — C.S. Lewis
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break… — Fulton J. Sheen
If youâ€™re reading these words, perhaps itâ€™s because something has kicked open the door for you, and youâ€™re ready to embrace change. It isnâ€™t enough… — Sharon Salzberg
In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo. — Stephenie Meyer
We value the individual. We probably put too much emphasis on the individual, if it comes right down to it. How many people, in the… — Stephenie Meyer
At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or… — Jon Krakauer
I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work,… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner… — Parker J. Palmer
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves… — Robinson Jeffers
All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. — John Green
All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards. — Paul Feyerabend

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