#perceive

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#ago #comet #computations #did #first

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power. ↗

— Roy Moore

#balances #basic #because #checks #constitution

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#irrational #mysteries #perceived #poetry #rational

As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#box #box office #disgusting #explosion #far

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind. ↗

— Phaedrus

#carefully #few #hidden #intelligence #mind

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#does #earth #ground #life #live

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#awake #dreaming #events #meaning #only

I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived. ↗

— Ray Romano

#family values #i #perceived #spokesman #standup

To understand is to perceive patterns. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#perceive #understand

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. ↗