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grasped

«The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.»
«The Greek grasped the present moment, and was the artist; the Jew worshipped the timeless spirit, and was the prophet»
«If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.»
Author: Jean Kerr (Writer) | Keywords: grasped, losing
«A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.»
Author: Laurence Sterne (Writer) | About: Adventure | Keywords: adventures, grasped, span, volume
«We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount»
«Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once»
«Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.»
Author: Mao Tse-Tung | About: Miracles, Struggle | Keywords: grasped
«You have weighed the stars in the balance, and grasped the skies in a span: / Take, if you must have answer, the word of a common man.»
«They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening»
«Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information / never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good / he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.»