He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions. — Robert South Copy Share Image
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
I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay,… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang… — William Shakespeare 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
“Venture deep into the wilderness of lost thought to the point that you physically shiver with apprehension, and there you will find… — Carl Henegan 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
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
My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake… — William Wordsworth 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
We are advancing, we are responding, we are having major apprehensions of the most wanted, most dangerous criminals, overall, we continue to… — Enrique Pena Nieto 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
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
Men of superior vivacity and wit, when they take a wrong turn, are generally worse than other men: because wit, consisting in… — Jeremiah Seed Copy Share Image
“When we start raising different inconsistent truths, life may tip into bewilderment and the brain may go haywire. The confrontation between what… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond… — Carl Jung 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
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
Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or… — John Barth 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
I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above. — Will Self 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
Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to… — Samuel Parr Copy Share Image
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. — Edmund Burke 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
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed! — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I sensed only an instant of apprehension. She never raised an eyebrow at the question.. Such a brave girl. — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
