Apprehension Quotes

168 quotes by 147 authors

Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at… — Arthur Schopenhauer
When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,… — John Dryden
The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As… — William Shakespeare
The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. — William Shakespeare
Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it. — Lawrence Durrell
It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension. — Julius Caesar
Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not. — S. R. Nathan
If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write… — A. M. Rosenthal
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes us… — Gerhard Richter
The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly an apprehension of… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men… — Roland Allen
The process that I want to call scientific is a process that involves the continual apprehension of meaning, the constant appraisal of significance accompanied by… — Percy Williams Bridgman
It is beyond my apprehension. — Danny Ozark
Reincarnation is an apprehension of a movement and the movement occurs in time. Without time, there is no reincarnation. Reincarnation is a reflection of time… — Frederick Lenz
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be… — Horace
You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you,… — Hermann Hesse
The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually… — Ben Shahn
As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is… — Thorstein Veblen
Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour,… — Herbert Read
When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by… — Saint Basil

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