Apprehended Quotes

45 quotes by 41 authors

It is not insignificant that my first apprehension of the love of God was granted in an experience with my father. Nor is it generally… — Walter Wangerin
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult… — Ambrose Bierce
That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of… — Plato
Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are… — Ibn Hazm
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend… — Edmund Burke
In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses. — Rudolf Arnheim
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome. — Arthur Helps
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a… — Giordano Bruno
Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer. — Louis Bonaparte
The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. — Alfred North Whitehead
He is not apprehended by reason, but by life. — Leo Tolstoy
I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life… — Steven Pressfield
The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to… — James Madison
Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life… — Kate Chopin
The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered… — John Calvin
Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all. — William Godwin
The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random,… — Galway Kinnell
Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another… — Arthur Symons
Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit. — Aldous Huxley

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