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)

    “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.”

    “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)