Perceive

Famous quotes containing the word perceive:

    “If I go forward, he is not there; or backward, I cannot perceive him; on the left he hides, and I cannot behold him; I turn to the right, but I cannot see him.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Job 23:8-9.

    “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)

    “I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single
    object, and that no man ever can,
    Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
    Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)