Quotes About Value

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

The only intelligence investing is value investing...to acquire more than one is paying for.

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.

What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.

The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge.

Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for.