Abstract

Famous quotes containing the word abstract:

    Oh, may the tide be soon enough at high
    To keep our abstract verse from being dry.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)