Elbert Hubbard Quotes

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

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

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

I have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special.

Even my enemies would acknowledge that I'm a great judge of talent, and this statement will be proven true time and time again.

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

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

I've been in this business long enough to recognize genuine talent.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

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.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

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

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

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

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

I am someone that appreciates talent.

I'm very observant. I see more than people think I'm seeing.

I've got a good set of eyeballs on me, so I can spot talent.

Because you cannot keep real talent hidden for long.