Quotes with grasp

  • A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
  • If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
  • I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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  • Cato the Elder Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Robert Browning A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Horace Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Alice Duer Miller A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Bill Dedman After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Robert Browning Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Jean Dubuffet Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
    Jean Dubuffet
    French artist (1901 - 1985)
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  • Anne Brontë But he, that dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.
    The Narrow Way (1848)
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Carter Burwell Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • George Herbert Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Paul E. Little Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Frantz Fanon I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
    Frantz Fanon
    French psychiatrist, Algerian freedom fighter and writer (1925 - 1961)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    French abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Barbara Walters I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Vannevar Bush If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
    Vannevar Bush
     
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