Apprehension Quotes

168 quotes by 150 authors

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. — Honore de Balzac
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. — Henri Bergson
I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired… — Donald Cargill
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion. — Florence Nightingale
Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the… — Alexander Pope
What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself. — Karl Barth
I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking. — Benjamin Franklin
Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that… — Susan Sontag
My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they… — William Wordsworth
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. — Edmund Burke
Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer. — Heraclitus
When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick,… — Benjamin Franklin
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would… — Alexander Hamilton
She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome… — Elisabeth Elliot
The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are… — Harry Frankfurt
Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His… — Carl Jung
There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation — Jim Rohn
There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct… — Oliver Lodge

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