Perceive Quotes

907 Perceive quotes by 674 unique authors

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense — Philip K. Dick
It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard… — Laini Taylor
I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when… — Alexandre Dumas
Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A: There is no grand scheme of things. B: If there were a grand scheme of things, the fact – the fact – that we… — Thomas Ligotti
In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too,… — Robert Browning
Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking… — Franz Kafka
I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me. — Catherynne M. Valente
Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicates. Like others having or living in more than one culture, we get… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call "dark matter" - the 95 per cent of the universe's mass… — Graham Hancock
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through… — Charles Dickens
People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways,… — Jonah Lehrer
The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in… — Norman Doidge
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not -… — Emily Dickinson
Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves in the air;… — Wendy Mass
Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of… — Jonathan Edwards
It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically,… — Louise GluÌˆck
Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest… — Louis Sachar
Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the… — Gore Vidal
If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting. — Idries Shah
And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath… — Virginia Woolf
Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to… — Thomas Bernhard
No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our… — Chris Crutcher

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