Quotes About Value

one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed—but after all, we were children.

Ninguém a quem valha a pena conhecer pode ser propriamente conhecido. Ninguém que valha a pena possuir pode ser realmente possuído.

For a universe without moral accountability and devoid of value is unimaginably terrible.

If God does not exist, our lives are ultimately meaningless, valueless, and purposeless despite how desperately we cling to the illusion to the contrary.

I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.

This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

The latest edition of a work of science is the most valuable; of literature, the earliest.

It was better to imagine a sacrifice being for something.

See, you always buy with notes. Coins are beneath you. You become a whisky-millionaire.

Markov's not important,' she said. 'I'm not important. You're not important. Winning the war, that's the only important thing.' 'No,' I said, 'I disagree. Markov was important. So am I and so are you. That's why we have to win.

De waarheid mag dan vreemder zijn dan de verbeelding, maar vraagt wel om een betere redacteur. Het grootste deel van het leven van een mens is de moeite van het onthouden niet waard.

Artwork can be consumed for ages. The people and the state can be proud of it. That is why it is incorrect to stimulate something that has no real value.

By means of art, man values the value of his worldview and the event. With it, the man moves to the ground and phosphoresces at the darkness of reality, illuminating his dark path with its splendor, like a magical dark-eyed eye, so it moves between the stars and so lives.

You can't judge a book by its cover," he said. "No," said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost!

Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning.

What are your goals for the call?" "If things go right, what are some stretch goals?" "What is the worst thing that might happen in the call, and what are ways to avoid it?" "What value will the customer will get from this call?" 

Emotion assigns value to things, and reason can only make choices on the basis of those valuations. The human mind can be pragmatic because deep down it is romantic.

While it pretends not to, it subliminally sends the message that those who are smarter and more accomplished are actually worth more than those who are not.

Good design is a form of respect—on the part of the producer for the person who will spend hard-earned cash on the product, use the product, own the product.

The immortality of the soul is worthless. The only meaningful kind of immortality is kleos.

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah ' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?

The technology is useful and convenient, but it has, in the end, reduced its own value and increased the value of the things it has never been able to capture or reproduce.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

We are happy in proportion as we believe ourselves and our life to be of value; and few people are so disinterested or so conceited as to trust wholly to their own judgment in this matter.