Grasping Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not…

— Michel de Montaigne

“‎"Nothing is more helpful to reduce pride than the actual experience of self-knowledge. If we are discouraged by it, we have misunderstood its meaning.”

— Thomas Keating

“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There is a widespread philosophical tendency towards the view which tells us that Man is the measure of all things, that truth is man-made,…

— Bertrand Russell

“Initially, you grasp [knowledge] through the ‘light’ of the intellect and then the understanding arises, and thereafter a state in which there is absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men: Wisdom, in minds…

— J Oswald Sanders

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

“My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Knowledge’s surest logic is the lack of knowledge.”

— Sorin Cerin

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till…

— Plato