Mental Grasp Quotes

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

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.

Most people don't grab the right ideas or don't know what to do with them.

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

One can do something if one can see and understand it.

To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.

A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together.

I think understanding or comprehension is probably the strongest emotion that you feel, or at least some kind of empathy.

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.

Believe that you may understand.

You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow -- leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew

I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.

To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.