Minds that have nothing to confer
Find little to perceive. [ Wordsworth ]
Men have less lively perception of good than of evil. [ Livy ]
My perception of a fact is as much a fact as the sun. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perception. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The want of perception is a defect which all the virtues of the heart cannot supply. [ Thoreau ]
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. [ Richter ]
Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life. [ Julia Ward Howe ]
The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study. [ Ruffini ]
Whatsoever the mind perceives of itself, or is the immediate object of perception, thought, or understanding, that I call an idea. [ Locke ]
The term intellect
includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like. [ William Fleming ]
All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses. [ Ruffini ]
Make a point never so clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination. [ Bishop Berkeley ]
Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence. [ Hazlitt ]
It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter it is deceptive. [ Whately ]
The one thing that marks the true artist is a clear perception and a firm, bold hand, in distinction from that imperfect mental vision and uncertain touch which give us the feeble pictures and the lumpy statues of the mere artisans on canvas or in stone. [ O. W. Holmes ]