Precious Quotes

2044 Precious quotes by 1382 unique authors

The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. — George Gissing
We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more… — Seneca the Younger
To Christ we are to be always coming; upon Him always relying; to His precious blood always looking. — Charles Spurgeon
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. — George Santayana
But of course there are all kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the… — David Foster Wallace
Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I… — Jeanne Tripplehorn
Love, indeed, lends a precious seeing to the eye, and hearing to the ear: all sights and sounds are glorified by the light of its… — Arthur Frederick Saunders
Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it… — P.J. O'Rourke
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting… — Jack Kerouac
I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a… — Mark Twain
Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining. — Casper Smart
Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession. — Gautama Buddha
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care. — Gautama Buddha
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in… — Plato
...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth… — Plato
An enemy is indeed a precious teacher. — Dalai Lama
Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Fantastically, Australia is still the lucky country. We have the flawed but necessary gift of democracy. Currently there is a debate about whether there is… — Unknown Author
Growing into your future ... requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all… — Victoria Moran
Happy are those who find wisdom... She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Her ways are ways of… — Solomon
Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. — Theocritus
Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process. — Helen Simonson
We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of… — Patricia Deegan
Woman is the most precious gift known to man, — Rick Ross

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