Quotes with grasp

Quotes 41 till 45 of 45.

  • Albert Einstein We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • William James We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Sir William Osler What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Woman for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: ''Blind yourself, for I am blind.''
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Simone Weil The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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