Perceive

Famous quotes containing the word perceive:

“I perceive that God is no respecter of persons.”
—Bible: New Testament Acts, 10:34.

Said by Peter at Caesarea; similar wording is found in Romans 2:11: “There is no respect of persons with God.”

“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it “the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.” The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of “Artist.””
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

“Now I perceive that she hath made compare
Between our statures; she hath urged her height,
And with her personage, her tall personage,
Her height, forsooth, she hath prevailed with him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)