Quotes about grasp, page 21
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
quote by William James
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Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.
quote by James Ramsey
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
quote by Marlon Brando
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
quote by Carl Sagan
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Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
quote by Norman Ralph Augustine
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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
quote by Mikhail Bakunin
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
quote by Muhammad Iqbal
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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.
quote by Norman Mailer
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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
quote by Elbert Hubbard
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