Abstract thinking Quote by James Ryerson

“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The way he talked about thoughts was the way i experienced them---not as a choice,but as a destiny. Not a catalog of my consciousness,…

— John Green

“Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He seemed to be drawing inward toward some point at which he would be reduced to the fundamental essence of himself.”

— William Gay

“But he did not think....thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through life in…

— Victor Serge

“He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“For many, his reference to the work of a transcendent mind merely demonstrated that he was unable to abandon an outmoded idealistic approach.”

— Stephen C. Meyer

“Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view.…

— Manal al-Sharif

“He of all people knew how negative thinking could sabotage things.”

— Tracy March

“We debated, and he offered praise. He always wanted to know how I came up with things. No one else has ever been so…

— Nina George

“He believed in nothing. Which is why his departures and his pursuit of the most intense feelings and acts were so radical, so deep…

— Dionne Brand