Quotes About Grasp

Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

Even if your Ego Doesn't Grasp it, this is the Truth: Everything is on Time Under Heaven's Net

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

It's in great joy that we grasp truth.

You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.

Every difficult problem is easy if you know how to.

And we do that by making sure they understand the idea behind the work they're being asked to do.

One consequence of thoroughgoing evangelical individualism is a tendency to be ahistorical, to not grasp fully how history has an influence on the present.

Who realizes how contented feral children are? The grasp of the family fell away as soon as I was out the door.

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.

extensor pollicis brevis, the flexor pollicis longus, and the first volar interosseous of Henle.* Working together, they allow us to grasp and manipulate tools with sureness and delicacy. You might never have heard of them, but these three small muscles are at the heart of human civilization. Take them away and our greatest collective achievement might be maneuvering ants out of their nests with sticks.

It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do me no good to own land. Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck; through thought I grasp it.

For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name

For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.

For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name.

There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.

Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands';