Recognition Quotes
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A banquet : a sumptuous feast ; especially: an elaborate and often ceremonious meal for numerous people often in honor of a person...a meal held in recognition of some occasion or achievement
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More Recognition Quotes
This is exactly the kind of thing Templeton is ceaselessly angling for – recognition among real scientists – and they use their money shamelessly to satisfy their doomed craving for scientific respectability. They tried it on with the Royal Society of London, and they seem to have found a compliant Quisling in the current President, Martin Rees, who, though not religious himself, is a fervent 'believer in belief'.
martin rees— Richard Dawkins (23 March 2010), Shame on the National Academy, retrieved on 2013-04-11
— on the US National Academy of Sciences hosting the announcement of the 2010 Templeton Prize
Ultimately, the best guarantor of the rule of law is not the state and the branches which comprise it but the recognition by people of its value and their willingness to fight for, and uphold it.
ratu joni madraiwiwi— Siwati Memorial Lecture, Honiara, Solomon Islands, 24 September 2004
It is the function of the artist to evoke the experience of surprised recognition: to show the viewer what he knows but does not know that he knows. Helnwein is a master of surprised recognition.
William S. Burroughs— Helnwein's Work, Lawrence, Kansas, 1990
Whatever his merits as an economist, Hume's place as one of the foremost exponents of capitalism is clearly established. His views on the landed interest and his recognition of self-interest and his desire for accumulation as the driving forces of economic activity in his time helped to consolidate the forces that were struggling to add political power to the economic supremacy which they had already achieved.
roll, eric, baron roll of ipsden— Chapter III, The Founders Of Political Economy, p. 123
Admiration, n Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
— The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.
At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty – and thus a good unto itself – but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions.
— Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988).
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
(Arthur) Clive Howard Bell— 1928 Civilization, ch.5.
The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied, and the reasons why scientists go into science, the personal motivations, are tremendously varied. I have said ... that science is a haven for freaks, that people go into science because they are misfits, and that it is a sheltered place where they can spin their own yarn and have recognition, be tolerated and happy, and have approval for it.
max delbrück— Interview with Max Delbruck (1978), p. 87. Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena, California.
We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it is described in the US constitution: the promotion of culture. Many artists are using recognition as their primary driving force to create culture.
rickard falkvinge— Wikinews Interview (June 20, 2006)
The results were clear: the new environment inhibited recognition.
elizabeth loftus— p. 90 (Eyewitness Testimony (1979))
Booze, pot, too much sex, failure in one's private life, too much attrition, too much recognition, too little recognition. Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.
norman mailer— As quoted in The Sunday Herald [Scotland (11 November 2007)
My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned but not bought.
Margaret Chase Smith— Statement (11 November 1953); also in Declaration of Conscience? (1972) by Margaret Chase Smith, p. xi
I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love.
john steinbeck— Pt. 2 (Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962))
There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.
i. f. stone— I.F. Stone's Weekly (1954-03-15)
Criticism will need an injection of humility that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally in a temporary capacity. Since the critic exists only for introducing and explaining, he must be readily intelligible; he has no special vocabulary: criticism is in no way a science or a system.
jacques barzun— "Culture High and Dry" (1984), p. 20
Socrates’ way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.
Allan Bloom— “Western Civ,” p. 18
But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.
thomas hardy— Pt. I, ch. IV
It is not so much tutoring that the minds needs, but clearer recognition and better use of what it already knows.
henry s. haskins— p. 92 (Meditations in Wall Street (1940))
This mutual dependencies no longer the dialectical relationship between master and servant, which has been broken in the struggle for mutual recognition, but rather a vicious circle which encloses both the master and the servant. Do the technicians rule, or is their rule that of the others, who rely on the technicians as their planners and executors?
herbert marcuse— p. 33 (One-Dimensional Man (1964))
There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing.
theodore roosevelt— Letter, Oyster Bay, NY, September 1, 1903
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the President of the United States is authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design to the family of the late Honorable Leo J. Ryan in recognition of his distinguished service as a Member of Congress and the fact of his untimely death by assassination while performing his responsibilities as a Member of the United States House of Representatives.
leo j. ryan— United States Congress, "Act Awarding Leo Ryan Congressional Gold Medal" (18 November 1983), H.R. 3348 Public Law 98 - 159
The Independent Expert is persuaded that recognition of peace as a human right will promote a democratic and equitable international order and that national and international democratization will reduce conflict, since peoples want peace. It is Governments that stumble into war.
alfred de zayas— United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order [30]
No magic can change something into something that it is not; the imaginative transformation at the heart of magic is recognition, not creation.
— Susan Palwick in "The Last Unicorn: Magic as Metaphor" in The New York Review of Science Fiction (February 1989).
Truth, 'tis supposed, may bear all lights; and one of those principal lights or natural mediums by which things are to be viewed in order to a thorough recognition is ridicule itself.
— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour, Part I, Section I
Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
— Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan (1967) Capitalism: the unknown ideal. p. 19
Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.
— Vladimir Lenin Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908)
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”
— Susan B. Anthony, in Federal Court being tried for voting (June 18, 1873)
Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical, fresh knowledge has led to the recognition that evolution is more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge … [however,] theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living matter, or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man. Nor are they able to ground the dignity of the person.
— Pope John Paul II, "Message to Pontifical Academy of Sciences" (22 October 1996)
