Value Quotes

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What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe. — Timothy Keller
Posterity gives every man his true value. — Tacitus
If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it. — W. Somerset Maugham
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value,… — Annie Dillard
The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce. — John Kenneth Galbraith
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis
... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the… — Albert Einstein
Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated. — George Orwell
As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value. — Samuel Johnson
Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no… — Samuel Johnson
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. — Richard Le Gallienne
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. — Wallace Stevens
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression… — Elbert Hubbard
When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to… — Oliver Goldsmith
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not… — Alfred North Whitehead
It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be… — Raymond Chandler
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you… — John Green
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything. — Holbrook Jackson
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire… — Robertson Davies

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