Grasp Quotes

851 Grasp quotes by 675 unique authors

The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount,… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural… — Cesare Pavese
An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the people of America… — George C. Marshall
It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp… — Eleanor Perenyi
What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering.… — Buddhadasa
One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal… — Jeff Bridges
It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery… — Robertson Davies
Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a… — Joseph Conrad
While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility… — Albert Einstein
Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes. — John Dewey
Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they… — Heraclitus
And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws. — Oscar Wilde
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the… — Viktor E. Frankl
Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the emergence of a… — Dennis Kucinich
It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is… — Henri Poincare
Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that… — Charles Lapworth
The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new… — Freeman Dyson
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background… — Barbara Walters
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because… — William Allen White
Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that… — Dante Alighieri
We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have… — Unknown Author
Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely… — Vernon Howard
I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by… — George C. Marshall
It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will… — Ayn Rand

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