Grasping Quotes

161 quotes by 143 authors

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
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. — Aesop
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. — Deepak Chopra
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
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
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. — Elizabeth Bowen
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Iâ€™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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