(183 quotes found)
“To understand is to perceive patterns”
Isaiah Berlin
“Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
William James
“Man's Desires are limited by his Perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.”
William Blake
“...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.”
Charles Darwin
“Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it”
Charles de Montesquieu
“It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.”
William Plomer
“Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.”
Miyamoto Musashi
“During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.”
Jean Piaget
“To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.”
E. B. White
“We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described”
Henry David Thoreau
