#grasp

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

#attempt #entirely #far #game #get

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people. ↗

— Carol Kane

#any #feel #grasp #great #i

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#basic #basic principle #being #dole #generate

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#crisis #distress #feed #forty #grasped

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #concern #concerns #contains #grasped

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#because #behind #bit #classy #could

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #faith #finite #grasped #infinite

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#exactly #grasp #hands #merely #mind

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. ↗

— John Berry

#does #grasp #hand #only #paradise

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#being #capture #dimension #experience #grasp