#apprehension

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace. ↗

— Eugene Field

#ace #apprehension #else #king #momentary

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

#dim #driven #existing #forward #general

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

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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

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

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#certainly #concluded #must #natural #threat

It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so. ↗

— Thomas L. Smith

#becoming #mind #more #more and more #notoriously

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#apprehension #deep #earliest #fears #glimpse

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

— Henri Bergson

#faculty #intellect #necessary #other #reality

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

#bitter #cannot #coming #desired #dreadful

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 #devil #haunts #heaviest #imagination