Perceive

Famous quotes containing the word perceive:

    You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it’s motives.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experimenters.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    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)