Perceive

Famous quotes containing the word perceive:

    I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single
    object, and that no man ever can,
    Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
    Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

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

    Consciousness is the perception of what passes in a man’s own mind. Can another man perceive that I am conscious of any thing, when I perceive it not myself? No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
    John Locke (1632–1704)