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«It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.»
«Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.»
«It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.»
Author: Jeremy Taylor (Bishop, Clergyman, Writer) | About: Ignorance | Keywords: perceive
«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.»
«If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.»
«It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.»
«It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.»
«All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.»
«For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.»
«It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.»

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