Exchange Quotes

My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India. View quote
Edward Gibbon
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all. View quote
François Fénelon
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on insufficient funds. View quote
René Daumal
And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists. View quote
George Stigler
It is always the teacher who must learn the most ... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. View quote
Montesquieu
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. View quote
William Morris
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty. (Samuel Johnson)
The economic difficulty of the modern world is not shortage of materials but the organization of their exchange and distribution; distress arises, not from scarcity but from dislocation and maladjustment. View quote
Norman Angell
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade for a role, you give up your ability to feel and in exchange put up a mask. View quote
Jim Morrison
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. View quote
Havelock Ellis
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms. View quote
Irvin S. Cobb
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
If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace. View quote
Ariel Sharon
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. View quote
Robert Quillen
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. View quote
Adam Smith
A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. View quote
Christopher Lasch
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility. (Alan Dean Foster)
I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success. View quote
Billy Sheehan
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. View quote
H. L. Hunt
By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world. View quote
Alain de Botton
The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say