Values Quotes

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I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you… — John Green
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything. — Holbrook Jackson
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire… — Robertson Davies
The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science… — Robert M. Pirsig
Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by… — Max Beerbohm
An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy… — Ayn Rand
The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change. — Al Gore
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child,… — Andrea Dworkin
Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and… — Mary Astell
The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an… — Wendell Berry
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have. — Jorge Luis Borges
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. — John Barth
Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may… — Jean Genet
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the… — John Jay Chapman
I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you,… — Linus Pauling
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of… — Duane Michals
Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that… — Marian Wright Edelman
We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says… — Marian Wright Edelman
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of… — Isaiah Berlin

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