English Experts: Quotes,lines from books/plays with the word 'perceive'

[RainingCatsandDogs]

Help required please for half term homework.

Need to find interesting pieces of work using the word perceive!

Bit strange and I'm struggling to help ds.

How old is ds?

My noble father,
I do perceive here a divided duty:
To you I am bound for life and education;
My life and education both do learn me
How to respect you; you are the lord of duty;
I am hitherto your daughter: but here's my husband,
And so much duty as my mother show'd
To you, preferring you before her father,
So much I challenge that I may profess
Due to the Moor, my lord.

Desdemona in Othello

I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue. And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods,
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth; of all the mighty world
Of eye, and ear, - both what they half create,
And what perceive; well pleased to recognise
In nature and the language of the sense
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
Of all my moral being.

Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey"

Is ds old enough for these? - I'm thinking about canonical people who think a lot about ways of seeing & understanding. So don't be afraid to say if these are too sophisticated.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear
to man as it is: infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow
chinks of his cavern.

Blake - from "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"

(Does it have to be the very word "perceive"?)

bugger, was going to do the Othello one too

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
(Francis Bacon)

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Cicero

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Kenneth Tynan

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimee

You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
M. Shawn Cole

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein

All democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it; none but the republicans and mugwumps know it. All the republicans are insane, but only the democrats and mugwumps can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Mark Twain, "What Is Man and Other Philosophical Writings"

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Jean De La Bruyere

I perceive that that man [Cranmer] hath the right sow by the ear. [Letter, 1529]
Henry VIII

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
E B White

I perceive that, in revolutions, the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
Georges Jacques Danton

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
David Bohm

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
Lucretius

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer

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

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Francis Bacon

Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
Thomas Hardy

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

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.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

William James

Some really good ones here.
Ds is very impressed and I've enjoyed reading them.