Perceives

Famous quotes containing the word perceives:

“The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)