Values Quotes

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In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante. — Edith Wharton
Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high… — Samuel Johnson
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose. — J. H. Plumb
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is. — Robin G. Collingwood
History is only a value of relation. — Henry Adams
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest… — G. M. Trevelyan
History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the… — Robin G. Collingwood
So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far… — Mark Twain
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and… — George Santayana
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to… — Maxine Hong Kingston
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired… — Theodore Roosevelt
Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a… — Christopher McCandless
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them… — Albert Einstein
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what… — Hannah More
Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge? — Aulus Persius Flaccus
A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with… — Karl Mannheim
I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be of very slight… — Bertrand Russell
Knowledge about the process being modeled starts fairly low, then increases as understanding is obtained and tapers off to a high value at the end. — Unknown Author
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we… — Carl Rogers
Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to… — John Taylor Gatto
Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to… — Pope Benedict XVI
Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually they are possessive… — Pope Benedict XVI
We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but… — Wendell Berry

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