Quotes About Value

The value of a well-made and well-used tool lies not only in what it produces for us but what it produces in us.

It's dubious and dangerous, Drucker is saying, to mistake what's measurable for what's important.

for Google, the real value of a book is not as a self-contained literary work but as another pile of data to be mined.

vastly overvalue what happens to us right now,

They are useful. But they also make clear that, for Google, the real value of a book is not as a self-contained literary work but as another pile of data to be mined.

THE TROUBLE with automation is that it often gives us what we don't need at the cost of what we do.

Science... denude(s) all religious beliefs... denigrating them as irrational forms of superstition or myth regardless of their intrinsic rationality or value.

Weber insists that the value of science is always to be questioned and not simply presupposed... He is... critical of the presupposition which underlies Strauss' position, namely that scientific reason is necessarily of value.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

What is easier for us isn't necessarily what is better for us.

Personally, I don't bother with anything cheap—my mother always said cheap was dear in the long run—but some people aren't fussy.

While a weapon that could induce such powerful hallucinations would undoubtedly be of great military value, the theory fails for a number of reasons, including the global nature of the phenomenon, and the fact that the subject is now so high-profile that the abductors

You think it's all rather too "New Age" to be taken seriously, eh?' 'Not at all.' 'But it's an ancient discipline...' 'New Age disciplines invariably are,' Beede said, disparagingly, 'but in the modern world they lack context - we just pick them up and then toss them back down again, we consume them. They have no moral claim on us. No moral value. And without that they're rendered meaningless, fatuous, even.

That was how kings were. If you were of no use, you didn't exist.

Useful men stay alive.

What a waste and fuss for a bit of water and a few words.

To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding. It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.

The classical languages have educational value because they are safe from the vulgarity with which modern life corrupts languages in use.

Reeducating man will consist of teaching him once again to value objects correctly: that is, to need few.

The history of art is the history of its materials, its techniques, its themes, its social conditions, its psychological motives, or its set of intellectual problems, but never the history of beauty. A value has no history.

He who accepts the rank which nature assigns him does not turn into the mere absence of what he is not. Even the most modest thing has, in its proper place, immeasurable worth.

To live is modern man's only value. Even the modern hero does not die except in the name of life.

El gusto no se deshonra con lo que le plazca o deteste, sino con lo que erróneamente equipare.