Abstract Quotes

741 Abstract quotes by 593 unique authors

The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which… — Eugene Wigner
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. — Unknown Author
At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very… — Ellen Gallagher
I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they… — Jeff Bezos
What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or anything else, and… — Rei Kawakubo
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to… — George Ripley
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply… — Oscar Wilde
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through… — George Orwell
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory,… — Ernest Hemingway
An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. — Alain de Lille
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see. — Flannery O'Connor
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe. — John Polkinghorne
Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an… — Rudy Rucker
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it. — Mahatma Gandhi
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst… — Bob Blumer
We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality. — Henry Adams
It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has… — Madame de Stael
Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with the task of… — Pope Paul VI
[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… — Abraham Lincoln
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections,… — Noah Webster
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They… — Thomas B. Macaulay
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are… — John Berger
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to… — Laura Nyro
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to… — Laura Nyro
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to… — Wyndham Lewis

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