Abstraction Quotes

249 Abstraction quotes by 201 unique authors

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time… — Unknown Author
Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the… — Chuck Hagel
Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. With… — Abraham Maslow
Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion — John Kenneth Galbraith
The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic.… — Felix Adler
Only relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation. — Pacifiersucker
Levelling at its maximum is like the stillness of death, where one can hear one's own heartbeat, a stillness like death, into which nothing can… — Unknown Author
India is an abstraction.... India is no more a political personality than Europe. India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation… — Winston Churchill
The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made in the imagination.… — Melchor Lim

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