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“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.”

Firsts Lines Genius Taste Highest Appreciate Originals Appearance Command Reputation Recognition

Book:Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835

Source: Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835

“What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.”

Ifs Humans Reason Use Action Human Beings Beauty Teach Produce Taste Appreciate Mathematics Proof Rational Aesthetics Calculations Assessment Good Taste

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.”

Mind Doe Art Enjoy Understanding Taste Concerned Appreciate Former Latter

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in cooking, in movies, but in our own medium, poetry, we often fail to make allowances for tastes and projects other than our own.”

Thinking Should Trying Term Failing Poet Taste Diversity Projects Appreciate Cooking Wide Mediums Allowance

Author:James Arthur

“I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.”

Want Wells Kind Modern Rocks Taste Band Music Is Appreciate Guitar Pops Alternatives Garage Grunge Personal Taste Alternative Music

Author:Al Yankovic

“I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.”

Happens Enjoy Taste Eating Appreciate Humble Pie Humble Pie Eating Humble Pie

Author:Simon Sinek

“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.”

Heart Humor Taste Jokes Appreciate Oneself Irony Sense Of Humor Lost Love Preconceptions

Book:To see the dream

Source: To see the dream

“Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.”

Eye Used Reading Half Taste Ten Pages Appreciate Titles Jane Describing Austen Summarizing

Author:Tracy Chevalier

“You smoke? (Randy) Only when I’m on fire. (Steele) I don’t appreciate your humor, Mr. Steele. (Randy) I’m an acquired taste. (Steele)”

Fire Taste Appreciate Smoke Randy Acquired Taste

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.”

Thinking Wells Past Beautiful White Tree Baby Grew Taste Rain Appreciate Rivers Jazz Definitions Warm Smell Brown Infinity Beautiful Things Rushing Squirrels Swollen Muzzle Chipmunks

Author:David Sedaris

“I could really appreciate him now - could properly see every beautiful line of his perfect face, of his long, flawless body with my strong new eyes, every angle and every plane of him. I could taste his pure, vivid scent on my tongue and feel the unbelievable silkiness of his marble skin under my sensitive fingertips.”

Feels Long Body Eye Beautiful Faces Strong Lines Perfect Taste Pure Appreciate Skins Tongue Planes Sensitive Scent Angle Unbelievable Vivid Marble Fingertips Flawless New Eyes Perfect Face

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.”

“In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.”

People Firsts Made Happens Enjoy Teaching Taste Appreciate Endure Affection Thank God

Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“Thirdly, the gentleman warrior, carrying the weaponry of his way. The way of the warrior is to master the virtue of his weapons. If a gentleman dislikes strategy he will not appreciate the benefit of weaponry, so must he not have a little taste for this?”

Ifs Way Littles War Virtue Masters Taste Benefits Weapons Appreciate Strategy Warrior Gentleman Dislike Weaponry Way Of The Warrior

Book:Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

“The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.”

Ifs Love Life Is Gratitude Taste Appreciate Aim Appreciation Appreciated Aim Of Life Life Appreciation Past Relationship Love And Appreciation Appreciation In Relationships No Appreciation

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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.”

Has Beens Art Whole Artist Accepting Taste Appreciate

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

“With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different individuals and groups with different cultural heritages, having different dispositions and tastes. Each person has the right to choose whatever is most suitable, on the basis of a deep understanding of all others as brothers and sisters.”

“Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.”

Drink Taste Appreciate Chinese

Author:Confucius

“However amazing a dish looks, it is always the taste that lingers in your memory. Family and friends will appreciate a meal that tastes superb-even if you've brought the pan to the table.”

Ifs Looks Memories Taste Appreciate Tables Meals Dishes Family And Friends Our Memories Superb

Author:Gordon Ramsay