#apprehension

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shenstone

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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

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The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination. ↗

— Andrew McEwan

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

— Honore de Balzac

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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

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Sellapan Ramanathan

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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

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