Value Quotes - page 7

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women. (Glenn Frey)
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. View quote
Ida Tarbell
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account. View quote
Leland Stanford
Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that viewed in a social way, from the point of social considerations and economics, it will tell you that this thing will stay around. View quote
Martin Fleischmann
I am providing a service that many people obviously value. View quote
Matthew Lesko
In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times. View quote
Michael Burgess
The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance. View quote
Michael Burgess
By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools. View quote
Michael N. Castle
I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself. View quote
Robert Stack
The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged. View quote
Roy H. Williams
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them. (Stephan Jenkins)
Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless. View quote
Scott Hamilton
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street. View quote
Willie Stargell
The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being. View quote
Charles Darwin
A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience. View quote
Maurice Allais
The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world. View quote
Thomas Ligotti
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto
The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add an useful plant to its culture; especially, a bread grain; next in value to bread is oil. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant. (Heinrich Rohrer)
If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose. View quote
William Lane Craig
Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds. View quote
Thomas Paine
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. View quote
Graham Greene
Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future. View quote
John Forbes Nash