Perceive

Famous quotes containing the word perceive:

    If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.
    Ralph J. Cudworth (1617–1688)

    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)

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