#cog

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#acquaintance #already #embraced #enables #folly

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#another #our #ourselves #polite #recognition

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#extremely #i #i think #over #recognized

It's a blessing to be a part of such great shows that they're so recognizable. ↗

— David Boreanaz

#great #part #recognizable #shows #such

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#amazed #ask #autograph #i #me

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. ↗

— James Bovard

#being #burden #change #con #important

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#ambition #aspired #graceful #indulgent #love

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#complete #conquest #experience #framework #history

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#idea #impression #make #me #no idea

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#being #function #precedes #recognition