William Shakespeare - Seneca - Isaac Newton - Herbert Read - Saint Augustine -
O no, the apprehension of the good
Gives not the greater feeling to the worse. William Shakespeare, Richard II I iii 263-264, Bolingbroke to John of Gaunt
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. Isaac Newton
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
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. Saint Augustine