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Values Quotes by Henry Adams
- [P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care…
- The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain…
- As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness…
- History is only a value of relation.
More Values Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of… — Andrea Bocelli
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis