Grasp Quotes

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? (Robert Browning)
But he, that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. View quote
Anne Brontë
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. View quote
James Russell Lowell
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. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. View quote
Norman Mailer
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. View quote
Edward Hopper
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. View quote
Vannevar Bush
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. View quote
Carl Sagan
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming. View quote
William James
Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck through thought I grasp it. View quote
Blaise Pascal
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together. View quote
Eric Kandel
Grasp the subject, the words will follow. View quote
Cato the Elder
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter. View quote
Margaret Mead
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc. View quote
David Bohm
Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul The mind 's the standard of the man. View quote
Isaac Watts
To be radical is to grasp things by the root. View quote
Karl Marx
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. (Christopher Lasch)
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. View quote
Doug Larson
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love. View quote
Rollo May
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. View quote
Daniel Webster
Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing. View quote
Cory Doctorow