Value Quotes - page 5

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. (Adlai Stevenson II)
Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers. View quote
Kenneth Clark
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. View quote
Virginia Woolf
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. View quote
Boris Pasternak
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. View quote
Ben Elton
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain. (George Steiner)
I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself. View quote
Peter F. Hamilton
The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank. View quote
John Cale
If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself. View quote
Joseph Smith
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. View quote
Paul Dirac
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. View quote
Paul Theroux
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union. View quote
George Mason
The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. View quote
Eliza Farnham
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not its taste, but its effect, ... View quote
J. William Fulbright
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. (Anton Chekhov)
The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organisation of society. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. View quote
Horace
In my eyes, concepts of theology have only as much value as they are able to interpret experience. It seems to me that we have long reached the point where we theologians only talk to ourselves and debate with our own history of concepts. View quote
Eugen Drewermann