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.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
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.
Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
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.
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
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.
There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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.
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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