I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun. — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being. — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
Realisation is the motif of garnered apprehension .. the sooner you get there the better .. and the sooner you trip out the best ! — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who… — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong,… — William James Copy Share Image
When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Many, and I think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. And by virtue of this limitation… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I'm like my mother, she thought, I search my joy for signs of sorrow ahead.” — Soheir Khashoggi Copy Share Image
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
