Value Quotes

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Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the… — Booker T. Washington
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for… — Simone Weil
How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable… — Barbara Jordan
The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed. — William Feather
We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life… — Eve Curie
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we… — Izaak Walton
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. — Josh Billings
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. — J. William Fulbright
When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever… — Malcolm X
In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante. — Edith Wharton
Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high… — Samuel Johnson
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose. — J. H. Plumb
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is. — Robin G. Collingwood
History is only a value of relation. — Henry Adams
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest… — G. M. Trevelyan
History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the… — Robin G. Collingwood
So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far… — Mark Twain
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired… — Theodore Roosevelt

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