Appreciation Quotes and Sayings
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. ~ Cyril Connolly. The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself: his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation. ~ Lord David Cecil. I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest...On the other hand, I've never been more loved and appreciated than when I tried to 'justify' and affirm someone's mistaken beliefs; or when I've tried to give my friends the incorrect, absurd answers they wished to hear. ~ Ralph Waldo Ellison. The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great... The effect of travel on a man whose heart is in the right place is that the mind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resources - there is greater presence of mind... No one can truly appreciate the charm of repose unless he has undergone severe exertion. ~ David Livingstone. The moments of agony/ (Whether, or not, due to misunderstanding,/ Having hoped for the wrong things or dreaded the wrong things,/ Is not in question)are likewise permanent/…We appreciate this better/ In the agony of others, nearly experienced,/ Involving ourselves, than in our own./ For our own past is covered by the currents of action,/ But the torment of others remains an experience/ Unqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition./ People change, and smile: but the agony abides. ~ T.S. Eliot. To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. ~ Richard Feynman. The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself: his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation. ~ Lord David Cecil. |
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