Perceive

Famous quotes containing the word perceive:

“To perceive means to immobilize ... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.”
—Henri Bergson (1859–1941)

“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)

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