Detect

Famous quotes containing the word detect:

    Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)