Definition of Transcend

Transcend

To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds.

To pass over; to go beyond; to exceed.

To surpass; to outgo; to excel; to exceed.

To climb; to mount.

To be transcendent; to excel.

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Transcend Quotations

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
Karl Marx

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais Nin

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
Henry A. Kissinger

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.
Raul Julia

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
Michael Polanyi

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.
Brandi Chastain

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.
Stanislav Grof

The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.
Eric Cantor

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.
Michael Bolton

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?
Kazuo Ishiguro

I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best.
Jack Kingston

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
Atom Egoyan

Great teachers transcend ideology.
Suzanne Fields

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
Henry Norris Russell

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.
John Shirley

Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit!
Buddy Ebsen

I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids.
Rob Morrow

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Transcend Translations

transcend in Spanish is trascender

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