Quotes About Value

I must confess, that (since I am on the subject) I love you the more in that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence to them.

Because it was what you had in your heart that counted.

It takes between 70,000 and 150,000 crocuses to make 2 pounds of saffron.

He once wrote: "Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits. A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

All wealth is the product of labor.

Truth and falsehood are arbitrary terms. . . . There is nothing in experience to tell us that one is always preferable to the other. . . . There are lifeless truths and vital lies. . . . The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.

The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

Transaction costs use up resources in ways that are unrelated to the actual value of the business to be done. In the extreme, transaction costs can cause markets to be dysfunctional.

If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance

The value of a good education has never left me.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.

If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.

From our primary schools to secondary schools, to tertiary institutions, there must be a mass campaign to educate our people in the value of labour.

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.

If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.

The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.