Grasping Quotes

Pain is what I feed from when nothing else will nourish the noxious fury in my heart. It’s what I cling to when everything else—everyone else—slips right between my grasping fingers.

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.

The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense of the transience, indefiniteness, and provisional nature of any settlement.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

A lot of the experiences I write about could be described as grasping for boundaries, trying to find the limits of things.

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

The grasping mind holds on to everything – beliefs, people, possessions – so that it seems as though there is hardly any room to breathe.

In reality nobody can grasp anything permanently in life. Absolutely nothing. Somethings may stay in memory for a while but eventually that too fades away.

The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning

The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment

Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.

You let go of my hand to hold on to my heartDistance grasps us tightnow that we are apart

The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we’re holding on to that which we’re climbing, or we’re letting God hold onto us.