Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended
He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.
Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.
When the self is not engaged in apprehending objects it becomes aware of itself.
I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must conf...
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'
In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.
The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman. I would like to live and apprehend the problems, the conflicts, the feelings and the impulses of women radically different from me.
The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
