Quotes About Recognition

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. It is but feeble if it does not see so far as to know this.

80] Respect means; put yourself out. That may look pointless, but it is quite right, because it amounts to saying: I should certainly put myself out if you needed it, because I do so when you do not; besides, respect serves to distinguish the great. If respect meant sitting in an armchair we should be showing everyone respect and then there would be no way of marking distinction, but we make the distinction quite clear by putting ourselves out.

What a great advantage to be of noble birth, since it gives a man of eighteen the standing, recognition and respect that another man might not earn before he was fifty. That means winning thirty years' start with no effort.

Truth is not an object to be possessed; it is a living thing recognized, cultivated by the mind and heart.

Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it.

This is not the home of truth; it wanders unrecognized among men.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognise them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. We do not like others to deceive us; we do not think it fair that they should be held in higher esteem by us than they deserve; it is not then fair that we should deceive them, and should wish them to esteem us more highly than we deserve.

Weltliche Dinge muß man erkennen, damit man sie lieben kann. Göttliche Dinge muß man lieben, damit man sie erkennen kann.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

I thought I had seen a face like Sun Pie's before but couldn't remember just where. He had an unusual way of talking…slow but with slam bang action words.

People don't value their obscurity. They don't know what it's like to have it taken away…

Sometimes that's all it takes, the kind of recognition that comes when you're doing the thing for the thing's sake and you're on to something—it's just that nobody recognizes it yet.

You might think and be so marvelously right about praise that you open your door one day and the day walks in and stays for years.

It was annoying how her voice, though never loud, pursued him. No matter how vociferous were other voices, all about, he seemed unable to prevent himself from constantly recognizing hers.

Who does more for a nation--the one who makes a fuss about it or the one who, without thinking of it, raises it to universality by the beauty of his actions, and gives it fame and immortality?

They came out of the vault intoxicated, not by the mere thought of food, but by the consciousness that they too were of use in the world and did not live in vain, and had deserved the praise and thanks which Tonya would shower on them at home.

Y'know what they call the person who does all the work but gets none of the credit? An opportunity.

Me acerco a ella, aparto a un lado el arco roto y cojo sus manos entre las mías. Pero cuando me inclino para besarla en la frente, me doy cuenta de que lo había entendido mal. No es que se identifique con lo perdido. Nora Hartson se identifica con lo destruido. Por eso puede entrar en una sala llena de gente y descubrir a la única persona que está sola. Por eso me encontró a mí. Reconoció la herida, se reconoció a sí misma.

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one; men know him not - and to know not is to not care for.

I have been most industriously talking up your extraordinary powers to all my wide acquaintance,' continued Mr Drawlight. 'I have been your John the Baptist, sir, preparing the way for you!

In the fairy's song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.

We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them.