Grasping Quotes
161 quotes by 143 authors
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping,…
— Abigail Adams
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Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
— Aesop
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
— Deepak Chopra
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are the most tolerable…
— H. L. Mencken
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I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to destroy or kill,…
— Poul Hartling
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help…
— Erich Fromm
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Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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There is no final solution to loneliness until you recognize that you need the resources which are in yourself to enpy, within limits, being alone…
— Truman G. Madsen
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No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell…
— Ludwig von Mises
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...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping…
— Julian Huxley
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In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of…
— Robert Adams
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If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing…
— Albert Einstein
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There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a violent…
— John Longenecker
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You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained…
— Allen Ginsberg
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I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice,…
— Katrina Kenison
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I’m grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease,
— David Chang
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