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Value Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
- I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the…
- I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could…
- Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.
- The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in…
- We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion…
- The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.
- Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of…
- There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to…
- Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet…
- In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold or respectability would…
- One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
More Value Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius