Value Quotes

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Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by… — Max Beerbohm
An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy… — Ayn Rand
Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and… — Mary Astell
The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an… — Wendell Berry
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have. — Jorge Luis Borges
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. — John Barth
I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you,… — Linus Pauling
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of… — Duane Michals
We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says… — Marian Wright Edelman
The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now… — Florence King
Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol… — Theodore Parker
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing… — Octavio Paz
Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an… — Arianna Huffington
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in… — Roger Angell
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes… — Douglas Coupland
Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action. — Wang Yangming
One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will. — Armand Hammer
I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically… — Anwar Sadat

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