Appreciation Quote by G. H. Hardy

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.

— G. H. Hardy

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

— G. H. Hardy

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

— Virginia Woolf

A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

— John Henry Newman

And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously…

— Anonymous

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity…

— Henry Fielding

The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

— John Stuart Mill

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

— Henry Fielding

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

— Tunku Abdul Rahman