Valueless Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why…
— Oscar Wilde
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I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known…
— Michael Faraday
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There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That`s why people enjoy giving gifts so much. It…
— Rajneesh
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Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country…
— George S. Patton
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Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot…
— Richard Branson
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From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is…
— Emile Durkheim
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The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how…
— Carrie Chapman Catt
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Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.
— H. Rider Haggard
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The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.
— Paul Halmos
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I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.
— Michael Frayn
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Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power,…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy…
— Paul Halmos
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It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying,…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.
— Saadi
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Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying…
— Emma Goldman
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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
— Emile Durkheim
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Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.
— James Cash Penney
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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
— John Ruskin
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