The Recognitions Quotes

#1. Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest. William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

William Gaddis

#2. I recall a most ingenious piece in a Wisconsin quarterly some years ago in which 'The Recognitions' ' debt to 'Ulysses' was established in such minute detail I was doubtful of my own firm recollection of never having read 'Ulysses.

William Gaddis

#3. I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

Howard Gardner

#4. How difficult is it for one body to feel the injustice wheeled at another? Are the tensions, the recognitions, the disappointments, and the failures that exploded in the riots too foreign?

Claudia Rankine

#5. We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

James Lovelock

#6. No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.

Aldous Huxley

#7. I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

James Cash Penney

#8. You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you, and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual.

Frankie Cosmos

#9. When, upon the closed system of normal preoccupations, a story of a sea serpent appears, it is inhospitably treated. To us of the wider cordialities, it has recommendations for kinder reception. I think that we shall be noted in recognitions of good works for our bizarre charities.

Charles Fort

#10. I was born a Brahmin, but I'm not a Brahmin

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

#11. Knowledge leads towards different kind of societies then those societies don't relate with each other because people in those societies think, act and reacts with their knowledge that create different ways of life and different recognitions of humans.

Zaman Ali

#12. Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

Robert Breault

#13. Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead.

William H Gass

#14. Being alive and helping others to stay alive is the greatest personal success!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. There are lots of opportunities in limitations, but it takes a positive mindset to recognize them.

Israelmore Ayivor

#16. I, it's just, listen, criticism? It's the most important art now, it's the one we need most now. Criticism is the art we need most today. But not, don't you see? not the "if I'd done it myself . . ." Yes, a, a disciplined nostalgia, disciplined recognitions

William Gaddis

#17. As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.

Baruj Benacerraf