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| 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. | | Douglas Adams | |
| Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. | | Ambrose Bierce | |
| Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well | | Voltaire | |
| As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. | | Voltaire | |
| I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability | | Oscar Wilde | |
| I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work. | | Maya Angelou | |
| I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. | | George Santayana | |
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| No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare | | Mark Twain | |
| One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare | | Mark Twain | |
| Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it | | Blaise Pascal | |
| The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. | | William James | |
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| The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived | | Oscar Wilde | |
