#grasp

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it. ↗

— Maimonides

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On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. ↗

— Wilma Rudolph

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The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp. ↗

— William Shatner

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One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp. ↗

— Ed Wood

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Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ↗

— Aesop

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ↗

— Diane Arbus

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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' ↗

— Abigail Adams

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