Recognize Quotes

• Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Reality
  • Reason
  • Insanity

• We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Reality
  • Earth
  • Recognize

• I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.

  

  Rene Auberjonois
  • People
  • Voice
  • Your

• I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes the wrongness was even clear at the time, though not as clear as it is now. But I did these things because I felt the pull of a trajectory, a sense of experience piling up the way it does as you turn the pages of a novel. I would be lying if I said I was a different person now. I am the same person. I would do it all again.

  

  Emily Gould
  • Different
  • Wrong
  • Trajectory

• In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Society
  • Recognize
  • Illness

• The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Reason
  • Function
  • Surpass

• They still need to keep working at getting people to recognize it as an artsy place. There's the potential for Windward, but it's going to take some of the big landowner merchants realizing what we realize: that art pays for itself.

  

  Don Johnson
  • People
  • Art
  • Windward

• You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Recognize
  • Fighter
  • Survivor

• If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Pain
  • Deep
  • Regret

• It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Purpose
  • Honor
  • Recognize

• I recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. And I have always recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the independent, fully sovereign Palestinian state that we all want to emerge from negotiations toward a true two-state solution.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Solution
  • Jerusalem
  • Palestinian

• With a band like Shenandoah, you don't want to take things and deconstruct them to a point where you don't recognize them.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Band
  • Recognize
  • Deconstruct

• I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

  

  Bono U2
  • Character
  • Times
  • Recognize

• If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Wonderful
  • Recognize
  • Servant

• A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Positive
  • Negative
  • Thinker

• Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Help
  • Peace
  • Lost

• If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fault

• The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Realize
  • Recognize
  • Advance

• We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Political
  • Suffer
  • Political Problem

• We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Fate
  • Lives
  • Tradition

• The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

  

  Confucius
  • Ability
  • Recognize
  • Limitations

• The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.

  

  Anatol Rapoport
  • Behavior
  • Recognize
  • Describe

• It's important to recognize when a song remains important to you.

  

  Finneas
  • Important
  • Song
  • Recognize

• My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Recognize
  • Species

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