Detect

Famous quotes containing the word detect:

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

“He planted where the deluge ploughed,
His hired hands were wind and cloud;
His eyes detect the Gods concealed
In the hummock of the field.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“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)