#apprehension

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

— Honore de Balzac

#heavenly #love #rises #spirit #things

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

#any #apprehension #beyond #creation #extraordinary

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

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

#alike #apprehend #apprehension #been #body

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

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

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

#bad #bad example #compensate #could #effects

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

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#beauty #comparison #relation