Famous quotes containing the word apprehension:
“Beauty ... is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership.... I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches a person how to do and say the right thing at the right time. It coexists with very ordinary qualities, and yet many great geniuses are without it. Of all human qualities I consider it the most convenient—not always the highest; yet I would rather have it than many more shining qualities.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
“Consider how the speechless, invisible gods
Ruled us before, from over Asia, by
Our merest apprehension of their will.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
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