Perceive

Famous quotes containing the word perceive:

“I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface of things. We think that that is which appears to be.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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