Groping Quotes

73 quotes by 67 authors

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties,… — Ethel Barrymore
I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their… — Theodore Dreiser
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all… — Immanuel Kant
Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I… — Albert Einstein
It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy. — James C. Collins
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight… — John B. S. Haldane
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers… — Alan Greenspan
What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge… — Agnes Mary Clerke
There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer world by means… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've… — Ted Solotaroff
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think… — Mark Twain
We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle… — Ayn Rand
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. — Helen Keller
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties,… — Eric Hoffer
God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter… — Malcolm Lowry
To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter… — Jeanette Winterson
When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience… — Pierre Alechinsky
All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension… — Oskar Kokoschka
For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom… — Maurice Herzog
The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the… — Evariste Galois

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