It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it. At such… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all thats left is a presidency adrift,… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information… — Jeremy Campbell Copy Share Image
Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything. — James Allen Copy Share Image
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly,… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to… — Poul Hartling Copy Share Image
I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly… — Billy Tauzin Copy Share Image
You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather, it is the actual condition of all experience before you… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
I'm trying..." How could I put it? "I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember." I… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image