Gropes Quotes

#1. Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

Sri Aurobindo

#2. The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it
this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

Elisabeth Elliot

#4. Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

Oliver Sacks

#5. Behold yon rough and flinty road
Where youth, now youth no more,
Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves
He cast away of yore.

Emma Ghent Curtis

#6. When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random

Emile Durkheim

#7. To every man there openeth a way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, and the low soul gropes the low. And in between, on the misty flats, the rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth a high way and a low, and every man decideth the way his soul shall go ...

William Arthur Dunkerley

#8. Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.

Carl Sagan

#9. Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

#10. It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress.

Victor Hugo

#11. All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.

Walter De La Mare

#12. Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.

John Gardner

#13. For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in peace-time, or by the homicidal passion of these same when war breaks out.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#14. All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

Robert Owen

#15. Greece is the most magical place on Earth.

Kylie Bax

#16. What you do is your lot.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.

Leslie Mann

#18. I got quite used to changing that cheque, because you can get used to anything. You think: I'll never do that; and you find yourself doing it.

Jean Rhys

#19. You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

Anthony Horowitz

#20. We all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

Erica Jong

#21. Meditation is not about doing something

Joko Beck