Quotes About Value

Without temptation what value is virtue?

Once you've got your topic for a lead magnet you then have to make sure that people can see that the topic is going to be valuable to them. It needs to be clear from the name and the description of the lead magnet that they'll get immediate value.

Price is not the same thing as value. Over the long term, value should be the same as a price that leads to proper decisions about consumption, exploitation, and investment, without extinguishing the resource.

There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other minds were equally alive. It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding, above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value. That was the only moral a story need have.

It seemed to Rebus that the more expensive something was, the less of it there always seemed to be: tiny little hi-fi systems, watches without numbers, the translucent Dior ankle-socks on Michael's feet.

Obsession came easy—especially to men—because it was a cheap way of achieving control, albeit control over something practically worthless.

Nothing in the room was cheap, but none of it was exactly desirable either.

He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed music, did it matter that art went unseen?

Aveva trattato ogni genere di merce - stoffe, spezie, cereali, animali, navi, oro e argento - e conosceva il prezzo degli schiavi, ma quanto valeva un amico?

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

A loan is the scissors of friendship. A man's own tongue may cut his throat. The cage has no value without the bird.

Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.

The Book of Wisdom. Simab said: 'I shall sell the Book of Wisdom for a hundred gold pieces, and some people will say that it is cheap.' Yunus Marmar said to him: 'And I shall give away the key to understanding it, and almost none shall take it, even free of charge.

The mine is always bigger than the gem.

Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay. Proverb

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

El libro de la sabiduría. Simab dijo: "Venderé el libro de la sabiduría por cien piezas de oro, y algunos dirán que es barato." Yunus Marmar le dijo: "Y yo regalaré la llave para comprenderlo, y casi nadie la tomará, incluso aunque sea gratis.

Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

The Sufis have said: 'The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

Los Sufis han dicho: "La importancia de algo está en proporción inversa a su atractivo.

Un préstamo es las tijeras de la amistad La lengua de un hombre puede cortar su garganta La jaula no tiene valor sin el pájaro.

Scraps The scraps from the meal of the Emir are larger than the gifts of halwa from the merchant. Timur Fazil