Values Quotes
6303 quotes by 3429 authors
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The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the…
— Steven Pinker
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If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity here is going…
— Jonathan Haidt
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Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge. In the modern world, we…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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The true value of communication is often not so much what you say to each other but the simple, powerful fact that you care enough…
— Johan Bruyneel
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In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As…
— Chris Hadfield
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Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations.…
— Chris Hadfield
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The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
— James J. Gibson
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I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in…
— Jacques Audiard
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Every man and woman alive is gifted by God in some special way. People who have a self-image of worth are going to see value…
— William Walton
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Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which…
— Lytton Strachey
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Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally…
— Isaiah Berlin
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There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any specific proposal with…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power…
— Edward Snowden
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So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk. Companies are set up so…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have…
— Pope Francis
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It is a mistake to apply American democratic procedures to the faith and the truth. You cannot take a vote on the truth. The value…
— Pope John Paul II
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The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help the person to…
— Pope John Paul II
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In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being…
— Mother Teresa
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We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created that progressively devalues…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
— George Bernard Shaw
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