Philip Sidney Quotes

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Men's wisdom increases with reference to what lies before them.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

There's a million different ways you can look at a moment.

I don't think a lot of people really know what goes into something that they see.

There's a lot of things that I appreciate that people can't appreciate.

I don't always feel seen.

If you judge me only by my profession, you don't know me at all. Those people who do that? They'll never know me.