Famous quotes containing the word perceive:
“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“... if art speaks clearly about something relevant to peoples lives it can change the way they perceive reality.”
—Judy Chicago (b. 1939)
“We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
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