Receive

Famous quotes containing the word receive:

    His word
    is withdrawn,
    hieratic,
    authentic,
    a king’s,
    yet all may receive it.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    ... when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagination.—For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers ...
    Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

    We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
    Chauncey Wright (1830–1875)