Abstractly Thinking Quotes & Sayings

A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else. — Raymond Chandler

The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries. — Shiri Appleby

Viewed abstractly, systems analysis implies rigorous thinking, hopefully quantitative, regarding the gains and the resource-expenditures involved in a particular course of action -- to insure that scarce resources are employed productively rather than wastefully. — James R. Schlesinger

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We may look at the growth of knowledge ... as an attempt by our mind to return to union with things as they are in their ordered wholeness ... . and if we take this view, our notion of truth is marked out for us. Truth is the approximation of thought to reality ... Its measure is the distance thought has travelled ... toward that intelligible system ... The degree of truth of a particular proposition is to be judged in the first instance by its coherence with experience as a whole, ultimately by its coherence with that further whole, all comprehensive and fully articulated, in which thought can come to rest. — Brand Blanshard

People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings. — Kate Beckinsale

Thinking scientifically requires the ability to reason abstractly, which itself is at the foundation of all morality. Consider the mental rotation required to implement the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This necessitates one to change positions - to become the other - and then to extrapolate what action X would feel like as the receiver instead of the doer (or as the victim instead of the perpetrator). A case can be made that the type of conceptual ratiocination required for both scientific and moral reasoning not only is linked historically and psychologically, but also that it has been improving over time as we become better at nonconcrete, theoretical reflection. — Michael Shermer

When you have gaps in your memory like I do, you come to better appreciate the things you do remember. The way your hands just repeat a task you've done enough times, without even needing to think. Who needs Legacies when we have the infinite power of the human mind at our disposal? — Pittacus Lore

The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand that our best behavior depends on our ability to think abstractly, in terms of a universal rule, about something called humanity, that we need to understand humanity abstractly so that we can act responsibly towards those who represent it. — Talal Asad

If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought. — Wendy Kaminer

It's terrible to be civilized, because when you come to the end of the world you have nothing to support the terror of loneliness. — Henry Miller

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school. — Brian Blessed

Vaccination programs were instituted in the late 1930s, and the first handful of autistic babies were noted in the early 1940s. When vaccination programs were expanded after the war, the number of autistic children increased greatly. — Harris L Coulter

This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science: — Siddhartha Mukherjee

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics. — Jason Alexander