Perceive

Famous quotes containing the word perceive:

“Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

“Now I perceive that she hath made compare
Between our statures; she hath urged her height,
And with her personage, her tall personage,
Her height, forsooth, she hath prevailed with him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist’s custom.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)