(183 quotes found)
“Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh.”
William Shakespeare
“There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.”
Charles Fort
“I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.”
Lord Byron
“That was a real slap in the face. I think they perceive Microsoft as part of Western hegemony somehow.”
Mark Anderson
“The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler’s mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness.”
Daniel Quinn
“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”
Anthony Robbins
“To perceive is to suffer.”
Aristotle
“He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what heCan't PerceiveAnd he's a Fool who tries to make such aBlockhead believe.”
William Blake
“I do perceive here a divided duty.”
“Raisins are perceived as sweet and sticky and any food that contains sugar and is sticky is assumed to cause cavities.”
Christine Wu
