Value Quotes

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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and… — John Dewey
Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense… — Richard Wright
Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the… — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war. — Jeanette Winterson
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. — Stephen Covey
But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in… — Jeffrey Eugenides
If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out… — Alfred Bester
Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without. — Terry Goodkind
Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value. — Brent Weeks
Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after… — Brandon Sanderson
Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost… — Sam Harris
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual… — Alain de Botton
Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil. — Julius Lester
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once itâ€™s gone â€“ its value is… — Joyce Carol Oates
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it. — W. Somerset Maugham
Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not… — Dalai Lama
To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the… — Fulton J. Sheen
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity,… — Rebecca Solnit
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and… — Fernando Pessoa

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