Perceptible Quotes

In a large telescope the motion would be perceptible against any stars in the field more or less in real time, sort of like watching the second hand on a clock... not quite that fast, but noticeable. - Alan Harris

How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond! - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. - Virginia Woolf

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? - Louis Aragon

Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe. - Albert Pike

As a stimulus proposal, it's a non-starter. The economic impact is very, very small -- almost imperceptible. - Lacy Hunt

Allowing for all the restrictions involved when trying to rank individual artists by using general criteria, we have to say it is a measure of inscrutability and hardness, mostly already perceptible in their craftsmanship, an elusive asceticism, a stubbornness which manifests itself most clearly in a total lack of accommodation to public taste. - Simon Vestdijk