243 Quotes About Recognition

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

It's worse than unwelcome, said Samuel. The Africans don't even see us. They don't even recognize us as the brothers and sisters they sold.

If our Fall was our re-cognition, our re-knowing of the good as evil, then our Reconciliation is our re-cognition in Christ - our re-knowing in the risen humanity of the Word - of evil as the good he has made it once more.

Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I’ve recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again.

Oh great!I never recognized Sunshine shining me, within me.

We wonder why it has ‘come to this.’ And eventually it ‘came to us’ that our decisions could do nothing other than to ‘come to this,’ but the realization of that came a bit too late.

Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition.

Imagine the parts of yourself disassembled; imagine, for example, that nothing is left of you but a severed hand in an ice cooler. Perhaps there is one of your loved ones who could identify even this small piece. Here: the lines on your palm. The texture of your knuckles and wrinkled skin at the joints in the middle of your fingers. Calluses, scars. The shape of your nails.

Han var mycket modern, långt före de flesta. Nu är det ju så att det är svårt att vara modern före någon annan. För att vara modern måste man vara minst två. Moderniteten måste förborgerligas för att bli erkänd som modernitet annars blir den bara bisarreri.