Values Quotes

6303 Values quotes by 3429 unique authors

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience. — William James
The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants to create jobs or because he believes… — Dee Dee Myers
Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that… — Unknown Author
When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. — Robert Breault
Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of… — Jacques Monod
On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount… — Murray Rothbard
Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to… — John C. Baez
Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics. — Stephen Jay Gould
What money can buy has very little value beyond the necessaries of life. — Unknown Author
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to… — Hermann Hankel
He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than… — Martin Luther
Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their… — Epictetus
One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at… — Chris Ware
Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed… — Ayn Rand
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold… — Ayn Rand
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease,… — Ayn Rand
What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem. — Ayn Rand
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. — Ayn Rand
A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no… — David Ricardo
Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits.… — Thomas Sowell
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false… — Norbert Wiener
In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not… — Norbert Wiener
A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people — Mary Landrieu

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