| "How can finite GRASP infinity" »John Dryden |
| "GRASP the subject, the words will follow." »Cato the Elder |
| "The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not GRASP." »John Berry |
| "It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their GRASP." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his GRASP - or what's a heaven for" »Robert Browning |
| "Love is the only way to GRASP another human being in the innermost core of his personality." »Victor Frankl |
| "The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to GRASP the world, but to change it." »Colin Wilson |
| "The controversial overachiever is someone whose GRASP exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we GRASP them by the blade or the handle." »James Russell Lowell |
| "The aging process has you firmly in its GRASP if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." »Doug Larson |
| "Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of GRASP... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." »Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| "Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is GRASPed by the grain. It is a heart GRASP." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| "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 |
| "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." »James Ramsey |
| "Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can GRASP the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion." »Lao Tzu |
| "In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can GRASP it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it." »Albert Einstein |
| "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to GRASP any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree." »Alexander Graham Bell |
| "Every Communist must GRASP the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' Our principle is that the Communist Party commands the gun and the gun will never be allowed to command the Party." »Mao Zedong |
| "The best things in life are nearest Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not GRASP at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life." »Robert Louis Stephenson |
| "All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to GRASP the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences." »Albert Einstein |
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