Apprehend Quotes

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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by… — Aristotle
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I… — Charles Babbage
I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what our attitude towards His will… — Watchman Nee
It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government to reimburse them… — Alan K. Simpson
To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will… — George Washington
The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come… — John Garrett
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement. — Euripides
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to… — Benjamin Franklin
We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us.… — Henry David Thoreau
Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in the second sentence?… — Alexander Hamilton
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason. — Plotinus
There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is… — Howard Zinn
Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible… — Thomas Jefferson
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them… — Benjamin Franklin
Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger in… — Thomas George Bonney
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine.… — Bertrand Russell
Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does… — Byron White
Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their… — George Parsons Lathrop
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else… — John Donne

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