Values Quotes

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LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis
... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the… — Albert Einstein
The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values. — James Dobson
Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated. — George Orwell
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness. — Unknown Author
As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value. — Samuel Johnson
Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no… — Samuel Johnson
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. — George Santayana
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. — Richard Le Gallienne
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. — Wallace Stevens
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression… — Elbert Hubbard
When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to… — Oliver Goldsmith
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not… — Alfred North Whitehead
It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be… — Raymond Chandler
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the… — George Steiner
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the… — Mike Royko
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role… — Orson Scott Card
Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as… — Wallace Stegner
The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more. — John Fowles

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