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Quotes About Perceive

Mathematically-minded persons will thus perceive immediately that the magnitude scale is a logarithmic one and that the number 2.512 is the fifth root of 100.
~ Robert Burnham
Stalin, as many in the party soon began to perceive, was acting in the manner of a political boss. But we should take care not to assume that he saw himself in this light.
~ Robert C. Tucker
It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill.
~ Henry Tudor
Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements has been brought to order--that windows, doors and other details have been knitted into a scheme that manages to be at once regular and intricate. (p184)
~ Alain de Botton
The meaning of life is to see.
~ Huineng
Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They're going to find new injustices every day. That's what they do, and that's what they are.
~ Lorne Michaels
Although we may not perceive the hand of God in the affairs of nations as we view them today, His rule is no less sovereign today than it was in the days of the prophets or the apostles.
~ Jerry Bridges
I think my thought and imagination contain the picture and perceive its significance from every point of view. I have to force myself not to dwell upon it to avoid the sort of numbness that comes from deep apprehension and dwelling upon elements too vast to be yet comprehended or in any way controlled by counsel.
~ Erik Larson
You are not supposed to like things. Only to understand
~ Ernest Hemingway
It is no small thing that Paul says that only with this new mind can you become a new you. So often the will of God is described as something to be received rather than something that must be perceived. Paul tells us that when our minds are renewed, it is then and only then that we are able to test and approve what the will of God is. When we see the world from this new mind, we will see that God's intention for us is good and pleasing and perfect.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Perceive conflict as positive, creative, and issue driven. Don't allow personal attacks.
~ Eunice Parisi-Carew
Ele tem Pensamentos que respondem a todas as necessidades que o Seu Filho percebe, embora Ele não as veja. 5 Pois o Amor tem que dar, e aquilo que é dado em Seu Nome assume a forma mais útil num mundo de formas.
~ Dr. Helen Schucman
Oral cultures and literate cultures do not think, perceive or fall in
~ Anne Carson
As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.
~ Anne Carson
I am not insane, he said. A woman of your highly advanced intellect ought to be able to perceive that I am in love. With you. I wish you had told me. It was deuced embarrassing to find it out from your *brother*.
~ Loretta Chase
It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.
~ E. Haldeman-Julius
If a man's imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dreams.
~ Edward Abbey
Their misery came, with all your other miseries, from that incapacity for cooperation which followed from the individualism on which your social system was founded, from your inability to perceive that you could make ten times more profit out of your fellow men by uniting with them than by contending with them.
~ Edward Bellamy
Observe the opportunity.
~ Anonymous
Si percibimos cosas cuadradas es porque juzgamos que sus figuras corresponden a esta «forma» de la que tenemos conocimiento (en griego antiguo, «forma» se dice eidos, palabra de la que deriva nuestro vocablo «idea»).
~ Roger-Pol Droit
Open the Koran, which is perfect in its every syllable
~ Sam Harris
Once I realized that the only thing I can actually control in this life is my own mind, how I choose to react, feel, and perceive, I felt immediately liberated.
~ Nikki Reed
Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
~ Edward Thorndike
In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.
~ John J. Sirica