Perceive

Famous quotes containing the word perceive:

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

    Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws & nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be—& the non-necessity of it.
    Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn’t perceive such things outside of us.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)