Values Quotes
6303 quotes by 3553 authors
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The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward…
— Matilda Joslyn Gage
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If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
— Kofi Annan
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Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
— Benjamin Jowett
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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
— James D. Watson
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The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as…
— Karl Popper
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Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
— John Lahr
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When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.
— Eda LeShan
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything…
— Thomas Paine
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I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.
— Christopher Fry
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A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular,…
— Caryl Parker Haskins
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
— John F. Kennedy
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A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better off…
— Warren Buffett
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In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.
— Michael Milken
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Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive.
— Barry Nalebuff
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A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to…
— Andy Grove
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I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and…
— Angelina Jolie
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Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.
— Ayn Rand
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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our…
— Rene Daumal
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