An ass among perfumes, (i.e. things he cannot appreciate).
The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate. [ Thoreau ]
It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
We are only so far worthy of esteem as we know how to appreciate. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself. [ Goethe ]
It is easy to criticise an author, but it is difficult to appreciate him. [ Vauvenargues ]
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
The ability to appreciate what is noble is a gain which no one can ever take from us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it. [ Froude ]
Every traveller has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering. [ Dickens ]
Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. [ Charles Buxton ]
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate. [ Colton ]
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people are satisfied with ornament. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who are entirely deprived of them can neither appreciate nor comprehend them. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Artists may produce excellent designs, but they will avail little, unless the taste of the public is sufficiently cultivated to appreciate them. [ George C. Mason ]
Few of us appreciate the number of our everyday blessings; we think they are trifles, and yet trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle,
as Michael Angelo said. [ Sir John Lubbock ]
A man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person, which accounts for so much in women that their husbands never appreciate in them. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
What is grief? It is an obscure labyrinth into which God leads man, that he may be experienced in life, that he may remember his faults and abjure them, that he may appreciate the calm which virtue gives. [ Leopold Scheffer ]
High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it. [ Froude ]
I pity men who occupy themselves exclusively with the transitory in things and lose themselves in the study of what is perishable, since we are here for this very end that we may make the perishable imperishable, which we can do only after we have learned how to appreciate both. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]