Quotes About Recognition

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

To say something nice about themselves this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

I am because my little dog knows me.

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.

Anyone can be a fool, but the one recognizes it and admits it is on the path to wisdom.

Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.

The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.

A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.