Apprehension Quotes - Page 2

• This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Angel, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

  James Bridie

  Ignorance, Character, Boredom

  James Bridie, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (2007). “The devil to stage: five plays”, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)

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• The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

  Plato

  Truth, Numbers, Quality

  Plato (1956). “The Republic”

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• There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Thinking, Adults, Becoming An Adult

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• Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Change, God, Stars

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• By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Peace, Attitude, Giving

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.251, Transaction Publishers

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• When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Umpires, Law, Liberty

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.206, Library of Alexandria

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• The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every danger that has been apprehended.

  John Dickinson

  Strong, Power, Usa

  John Dickinson (1801). “The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: Late President of the State of Delaware, and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”, p.89

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• 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 when a giant dies.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Giants, Poor

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 75

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• Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Literature, Spirit, Heavenly

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• A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Men, Imagination

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.222

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• We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption.

  Francis Parkman

  Party, Trails, Interruptions

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.25, VM eBooks

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• As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Pain, Father, Birth Defects

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• It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.

  Peter Hook

  Hate, Ironic, Groups

  Interview with Matt Cotterill, higher-frequency.com. April 15, 2006.

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• The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to precede every other inquiry into social physics, since it is, as it were, the basis. The average man, indeed, is in a nation what the centre of gravity is in a body; it is by having that central point in view that we arrive at the apprehension of all the phenomena of equilibrium and motion.

  Adolphe Quetelet

  Determination, Men, Views

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• The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

  Lucan

  Evil, Danger, Situation

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 158-60, Pharsalia, VII. 104, 1922.

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• The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Giving, Feelings

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 294

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• We are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our psychoglocal attitude is imminent, that is certain...because we need more understanding of human nature because ...the only real danger that exists is man himself... and we know nothing of man - his psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.

  Carl Jung

  Attitude, Real, Men

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• Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On still other occasions we bask in the warmth of summer--comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension. The cycle repeats itself many times throughout the life of a marriage, just as the seasons repeat themselves in nature.

  Gary Chapman

  Summer, Moving, Fall

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• The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.

  Leland Bell

  Artist, Reality, Roles

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• Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Reality, Fabric, Moments

  Bernard Lonergan (2016). “A Second Collection”, p.17, University of Toronto Press

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• But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

  Arundhati Roy

  Fear, Should

  Arundhati Roy (2013). “Broken Republic”, p.96, Penguin UK

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• Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lovers, Found, Solutions

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Truth, Ladders, Matter

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.285, Faber & Faber

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• True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates the sin, and not simply the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered God's love.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Hate, Grief, Mercy Of God

  William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”

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