Grasp Quotes
851 quotes by 675 authors
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AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A REVELATION,…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Through repeated practice of the body scan over time, we come to grasp the reality of our body as whole in the present moment. This…
— Howard Zinn
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Come, all ye lovers of liberty, break the oppressor's rod, loose the iron grasp of mobocracy, and bring to condign punishment all those who trample…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above them in your…
— Wilferd Peterson
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Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp
— Plato
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To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.
— Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course as straightforward as…
— Lynn Culbreath Noel
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What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
— David Guterson
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Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on a…
— Isaac Asimov
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By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in…
— Samuel Reshevsky
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A man develops a subtle power as a result of the strict observance of celibacy for twelve years. Then he can understand and grasp very…
— Ramakrishna
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We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.
— Timothy Keller
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Rise above oneself and grasp the world.
— Archimedes
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The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.
— Bill Maher
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Primates are the only animals on the face of the earth that can taste sweet and see color. We were designed by nature to see,…
— Joel Fuhrman
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It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.
— Martha Stewart
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I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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