17 Quotes Tagged: recognition

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[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

Clarence Darrow, American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union (1857-1938)

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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies.

Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ.

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.

People work for money but go the extra mile for praise, recognition, and rewards.

A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Ronald Reagan, president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004)

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Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way to spot out the destructive and innovative guests.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)

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There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

The system we have built refuses to recognize people. Only credit cards are recognized. Drivers' licenses are recognized. But not people. People haven't any use for faces anymore, it seems. They are busy looking at your credit card, your driver's licence, your social security number. If a driver's licence is more reliable than the face I wear, then why do I have a face?

17 Quotes Tagged: recognition

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