Top 211 Apprehension Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

I had great apprehension in locking lips with Namit on the screen. I come with my own prerogatives.

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.

If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.

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.

In any merger, the biggest challenge is always integration of human resources because the people who are coming in have a lot of apprehension.

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

I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.

We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.

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

Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.

The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.

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

I have no apprehension over cutting my hair.

Thought is just an apprehension of touch.

Even for the people in the bank into which the other banks are merging, they also have a lot of apprehension. There is always an apprehension that opportunities will go down. There are apprehensions of displacement. Many of these apprehensions are unfounded.

There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.

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

There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

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

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

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.

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

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.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

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.

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

I think there's a lot of wonderful comics that leave you hanging in a state of apprehension or anxiety before alleviating that tension with a joke.

It is beyond my apprehension.

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

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

The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.

I sensed only an instant of apprehension. She never raised an eyebrow at the question.. Such a brave girl.

When I was asked to read a screenplay about Margaret Thatcher, I think I felt immediate apprehension.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed from us because it is too bad to be told.

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

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.