Inspirational Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.

— Ronald A. Heifetz

People are, by and large, quite poor at judging correct absolute values but are astute about determining relative values. Psychologists call this coherent arbitrariness,…

— Michael Mauboussin

“The quantitative degeneration of all things is closely linked to that of money, as is shown by the fact that nowadays the ‘worth’ of…

— René Guénon

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

— Jean Stapleton

Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

— Karl Marx

We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of…

— John Dewey

“humans rarely choose things in absolute terms. We don’t have an internal value meter that tells us how much things are worth.”

— Dan Ariely

Prejudice by its very nature is a faulted perception of reality. The prejudiced person will always be playing a roulette wheel with the truth.…

— John Lars Zwerenz

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

— H. P. Lovecraft

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

— Savielly Tartakower

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

— Robert Southey