Grasp Quotes
851 Grasp quotes by 675 unique authors
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Hard work pays off. When someone tells you otherwise, beware the sales pitch for something "fast and easy" that's about to come next. The greater…
— Steve Pavlina
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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought…
— John Henry Newman
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We are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon it than that…
— Robert Morrison MacIver
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To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us.…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo…
— Richard Dawkins
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Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them…
— Richard Dawkins
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...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that…
— Johannes Kepler
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A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
— Sivananda
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I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters…
— Piet Mondrian
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Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought…
— Zhuangzi
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The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are…
— Aristotle
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Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Well understand this! If you want to join our sales team; I don't need pillion riders; I need high drivers who grasp the handle-bars.
— Unknown Author
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Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the…
— Giovanni Giocondo
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This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.
— Deepak Chopra
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The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.
— John G. Kemeny
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Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.
— Robert Crumb
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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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Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and…
— Rich Little
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Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it.…
— Michael Dummett
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
— Alice Walker
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We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.
— Leo Buscaglia
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A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of…
— Hugh Mackay
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