Apprehension Quotes

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  A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

  Isaac Newton

  Uplifting, Men, Imagination

  Sir Isaac Newton (1950). “Theological Manuscripts: Selected and Edited with an Introd. by H. McLachlan”

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• Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Expectations

  Florence Nightingale (1992). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

  Henri Bergson

  Reality, Faculty, Intellect

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• Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

  Pliny the Elder

  Courage, Grief, Adversity

  "Letters, vol. 2". Book by Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth and Winifred Margaret Lambart Hutchinson, Book VIII, Letter 17, 6, 1935.

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• Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

  William Shenstone

  Jealousy, Envy, Envious

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.137

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• Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not.

  S. R. Nathan

  Natural, Threat

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• The sense of death is most in apprehension.

  William Shakespeare

  Measure For Measure

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

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• Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Progress, Evolution, Language

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

  William Shakespeare

  Vapour, Earth, Cynicism

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

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• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

  Joseph Addison

  Jealousy, Pain, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Spectator”, p.356

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• 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 the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, Sky, Soul

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1861). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.226

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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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• One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.

  Charles Sturt

  Success, Example, Moral

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.63

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• 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 only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.

  Donald Cargill

  Land, May, Helping

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• Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

  John Marston

  Fear

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• Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Relation, Hopkins, Comparison

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.91, Delphi Classics

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• If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

  George Berkeley

  Miracle, World, Strange

  George Berkeley, Joseph Stock (1843). “The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life”, p.476

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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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• 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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• Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

  Herbert Read

  Progress, Literature, Intensity

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

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• If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

  Maimonides

  Confused, Body, Able

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.285, Moses Maimonides

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• 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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