Famous quotes containing the word perceive:
“Consciousness is the perception of what passes in a mans own mind. Can another man perceive that I am conscious of any thing, when I perceive it not myself? No mans knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
—John Locke (16321704)
“... if art speaks clearly about something relevant to peoples lives it can change the way they perceive reality.”
—Judy Chicago (b. 1939)
“The steps toward the emancipation of women are first intellectual, then industrial, lastly legal and political. Great strides in the first two of these stages already have been made of millions of women who do not yet perceive that it is surely carrying them towards the last.”
—Ellen Battelle Dietrick, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)