Grasping Quotations

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature ...

I’m grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease,

Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.

To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.

...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling.

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.

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

It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

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