Receive

Famous quotes containing the word receive:

    To judge the appearances we receive of things, we should need a judicatory instrument; to verify this instrument, we should need a demonstration; to rectify this demonstration, we should need an instrument: so here we are arguing in a circle.
    Seeing the senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason, so here we are retreating backwards to all eternity.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.
    Bible: New Testament, Mark 10:15.

    Jesus.

    It was his nature to suppose,
    To receive what others had supposed, without
    Accepting. He received what he denied.
    But as truth to be accepted, he supposed
    A truth beyond all truths.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)