Perceive

Famous quotes containing the word perceive:

“And as she died so must we die ourselves,
And thence ye may perceive the world’s a dream.
Life, how and what is it?”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)

“Consciousness is the perception of what passes in a man’s own mind. Can another man perceive that I am conscious of any thing, when I perceive it not myself? No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)

“I perceive that in these woods the earliest settlements are, for various reasons, clustering about the lakes, but partly, I think, for the sake of the neighborhood as the oldest clearings. They are forest schools already established,—great centres of light.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)