Apprehension Quotes - Page 7

• To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Intellectual

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• I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal.

  Twyla Tharp

  Motivational, Dance, Real

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• 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 dark, will sing for fear.

  Alexander Pope

  Atheist, Children, Dark

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.119

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• What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.

  Karl Barth

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Weed, Marijuana, Years

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• LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Spiritual, Loss

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.150, University of Georgia Press

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• Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

  Norman Cousins

  Laughter, May, Panic

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• The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is more likely to regard it as a virtual parent, concerned only with protecting and helping him

  George Reisman

  Government, Average, Parent

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• Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

  Edmund Husserl

  Inquiry, Consciousness, Glances

  Edmund Husserl (2014). “Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology”, p.154, Routledge

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• 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 uncommon that God is apprehended in experience. Nor, in fact, can the divine and human meeting happen any other way. God is not a God of the pulpit, though the pulpit proclaim him. He is a God in and of the histories of humankind. What is significant is that I should have to say so.

  Walter Wangerin

  God, Father, Should Have

  Walter Wangerin (2003). “This Earthly Pilgrimage: Tales and Observations on the Way”

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• The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Past, Pet

  Susan Orlean (2012). “Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend of the World's Most Famous Dog”, p.235, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

  Thomas Traherne

  Sweet, Children, Paradise

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.151, Cosimo, Inc.

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• This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Simple, Ideas

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Three Early Comedies: Love's Labor's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.86, Bantam Classics

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• With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

  Calvin Miller

  Jobs, Hands, Important

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• We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

  Warren Buffett

  Events, Made, Macro

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.

  Peter Joseph

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

  Carolyn Kizer

  Passion, Wonder, Cycles

  Carolyn Kizer (2002). “Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000”, p.144, Copper Canyon Press

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• In Waziristan people get really upset when there are no drone attacks. Their apprehension is that the US and Pakistani government might enter in an agreement to halt the attacks.

  Pervez Hoodbhoy

  Government, Agreement, People

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• A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.

  Fisher Ames

  Believe, Evil, Liberty

  Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1854). “Works of Fisher Ames: With a selection from his speeches and correspondence”, p.346, Burt Franklin

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• We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new order of life. We judge quickly. In most cases only a day passes between the apprehension of the criminal and his sentence. When confronted with evidence criminals in almost every case confess; and what argument can have greater weight than a criminal's own confession.

  Felix Dzerzhinsky

  Fighting, Order, Government

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• In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the care with which we cultivate them, and apply ourselves to the deduction of diverse consequences from them, thinking that we are philosophizing well, while we are only departing the farther from the truth; from which it must be inferred that they who have learned the least of all that has been hitherto distinguished by the name of philosophy are the most fitted for the apprehension of truth.

  Rene Descartes

  Philosophy, Thinking, Names

  "The Principles of Philosophy".

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• I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined to gloomy apprehensions; and I was ever persuaded that a belief that we must at length end in something like a British constitution, had some weight in his adoption of the ceremonies of levees, birthdays, pompous meetings with Congress, and other forms of the same character, calculated to prepare us gradually for a change which he believed possible, and to let it come on with as little shock as might be to the public mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Character, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.237

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• How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

  Samuel Griswold Goodrich

  Children, Parent, Wish

  Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1838). “Fireside Education ...”, p.102

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• Thought is just an apprehension of touch.

  Gary Snyder

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• Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all melancholy out of your liver; and you need not restrain yourself with the apprehension that any lady will have the least fear that the violence of your movements will ever shake anything out of your brains.

  Lola Montez

  Fire, Order, Dancing

  Lola Montez (1858). “The Arts of Beauty: Or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet”, p.114

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