Perceive Quotes

907 Perceive quotes by 674 unique authors

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically… — Mark Twain
You have been in Afghanistan I perceive. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet… — Nicole Krauss
You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals… — Patrick O'Brian
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that… — Daisaku Ikeda
There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves. — Jacqueline Carey
One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live… — Marshall McLuhan
This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up,… — John Bunyan
Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins. — Aldous Huxley
Yes, our eyes may perceive, yet they do not observe; they may believe, yet they do not question; they may receive yet they do not… — Muriel Barbery
I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who… — William P. Young
I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace.… — Umberto Eco
But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so… — Rene Descartes
Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a… — Dean Koontz
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That… — Anthony de Mello
A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning… — George Carlin
Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire… — Hermann Hesse
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws — Audrey Niffenegger
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice,… — John Cheever
The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it… — Charles Spurgeon
I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and… — Harlan Ellison
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share… — Joseph Conrad
I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power. — Salvador Dali

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