Cannot Appreciate Quotes

#1. The charcoals of burned out religious philosophies are perceived by devout fanatics as pearls, which the heathen swine cannot appreciate.

Dimitris Mita

#2. You cannot appreciate the beauty of the sky at night without these five shining lights.

Onew

#3. I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Nana Mouskouri

#4. Everyone's life is like music, you cannot appreciate if you wont listen to it.

Clandistine Canoy

#5. Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

Pauline Kael

#6. But as long as you have some fixed idea or are caught by some habitual way of doing things, you cannot appreciate things in their true sense.

Shunryu Suzuki

#7. No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.

David Foster Wallace

#8. Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits

Sun Tzu

#9. Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them.

Victoria Finlay

#10. Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

Anthony Bourdain

#11. If Barack Obama cannot appreciate that our troops are winning in Iraq, he should not be their Commander in Chief.

Lindsey Graham

#12. Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.

Bobby Jones

#13. When you know the inside stories, no matter how good looks the cover, you just cannot appreciate it ...

Sanhita Baruah

#14. Ah," said Lien Shu, "it is true that a blind person cannot appreciate beautiful patterns and forms, and the deaf cannot appreciate the music of bells and drums. Yet blindness and deafness do not only afflict people physically, they also exist in the minds and attitudes of people.

Zhuangzi

#15. You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

Jacques Barzun

#17. One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.

Nicholas Rescher

#18. Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.

Bryan Cranston

#19. We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

Arthur Erickson

#20. Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

Nelson Mandela

#21. I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Elbert Hubbard

#22. Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

Rafael Nadal

#24. I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it.

Betty White

#25. You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.

Azim Premji

#26. There is a reason flight attendants tell you to put your mask on first in an emergency ... you cannot be important to anyone else if you are not first and foremost important to yourself. Appreciate and love yourself then use that to do the same for others. In other words, save yourself first.

Shelley K. Wall

#27. A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused.

Chogyam Trungpa

#28. As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar.

Martin Parr

#29. Measure what you can, evaluate what you measure, and appreciate that you cannot measure the vast majority of what you do. And at least every once in a while, make time to take a step back and think about what you are doing.

Ed Catmull

#30. Appreciate what they can give, forgive them for what they cannot.

Elizabeth Isaacs

#31. A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

Henry David Thoreau

#32. The proud think that their opinion alone is right. They cannot see the good points of others, as the humble do, and appreciate their opinions. That is why there is such disagreement, strife and quarrelling and even irrreconciliation in families and in other groups.

Basilea Schlink

#33. My view is that you cannot close your mind and say I don't want to listen to this or that. Because if you can't appreciate the bad for being bad, you can't appreciate the good. If you turn a deaf ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it's not going to work out.

Billy Eckstine

#34. You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

Mary Gaitskill

#35. I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.

Bertrand Russell

#36. If you cannot find and appreciate the beauty of your own thoughts, how can others appreciate you?

Debasish Mridha

#37. As we change, we sometimes outgrow our friendships. And, since we cannot change this fact, it is best to simply accept it for what it is in order to appreciate the power that the friend had in your life when he or she was a part of it.

Lindsay Detwiler

#38. Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does "culture" become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.

Allan Bloom

#39. A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Ibrahim Babangida

#40. To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge.

Nicolaus Copernicus

#41. In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

Oscar Wilde

#42. A relationship is NOT about your new partner to hear the things you didn't tell your ex's and for you to live on the fear of past relationship(s) ... BUT sometimes the person cannot love you as much as you appreciate yourself.

Coco Nicole Estef

#43. There is no easy way to the journey of life. Those who follow the easy road cannot fully appreciate life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#44. You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#45. As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

Carlos Castaneda

#46. A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.

Oscar Wilde

#47. One simply cannot come to a cause like the kingdom of God, with its celestial concepts, and not appreciate and identify with what Ammon said: "Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel."

Neal A. Maxwell