Abstraction Quote by Flannery O'Connor

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.

— John Dufresne

All our knowledge begins with the senses,

— Immanuel Kant

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

— Immanuel Kant

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

— Immanuel Kant

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

— Abdullah ibn Mubarak

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what…

— Susan Sontag

“Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

— Anonymous

“Our understanding of the universe is like a story without a beginning or end where the reader is creating the plot as he is…

— Ivan Figueroa-Otero

Where knowledge ends... feeling and imagination begin.

— Neville Goddard

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

— Angus Wilson

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

— Ellen Glasgow