Cannot Grasp Quotes
20 quotes by 17 authors
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...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which…
— Anatoliy Golitsyn
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One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim…
— H. L. Mencken
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The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the imagination…
— Anatoliy Golitsyn
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One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.
— Ed Wood
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We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the…
— Ken Wilber
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Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their…
— Denis de Rougemont
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Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles…
— Ayn Rand
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My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
— Charles de Gaulle
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To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us…
— Albert Einstein
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To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for…
— Virginia Woolf
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who…
— Al Pacino
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Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.
— James G. Frazer
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The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain…
— Stephen King
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So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
— Saint Bernard
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One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
— Ed Wood
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An apology means nothing when you cannot grasp what you're apologizing for!
— Abhishek Tiwari
Who Wrote These Cannot Grasp Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 20 Cannot Grasp Quotes as follows: