Quotes About Value

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

La science est aujourd'hui regardée par les uns comme un simple catalogue de recettes techniques, par les autres comme un ensemble de pures spéculations de l'esprit qui se suffisent à elles-mêmes ; les premiers font trop de peu de cas de l'esprit et les seconds du monde.

Ceux qui ont dit jusqu'ici que les applications sont le but de la science voulaient dire que la vérité ne vaut pas la peine d'être cherchée et que le succès seul importe ;

To say that the world is not worth anything, that this life is of no value and to give evil as the proof is absurd, for if these things are worthless what does evil take from us?

Comme, dans les partis politiques, il y a des démocrates qui admettent plusieurs partis, de même dans le domaine des opinions les gens larges reconnaissent une valeur aux opinions avec lesquelles ils se disent en désaccord. C'est avoir complètement perdu le sens même du vrai et du faux. D'autres, ayant pris position pour une opinion, ne consentent à examiner rien qui lui soit contraire. C'est la transposition de l'esprit totalitaire.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without a name.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been. Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she will give you a baby. If you give her a house, she will give you a home. If you give her groceries, she will give you a meal. If you give her a smile she will give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit!

Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

These services become affordable when you value them.

Because I know what it feels like to be used, valued only for what you can do... not who you are, not who you want to be.

I mean, when I think about it, what's more important? Clothes - or the miracle of new life?

It is absolutely what I think.' He looks deadly serious now. 'These academic guys have to feel important. They give papers and present TV programmes to show they're useful and valuable. But you do useful, valuable work every day. You don't need to prove anything. How many people have you treated? Hundreds. You've reduced their pain. You've made hundreds of people happier. Has Antony Tavish ever made anyone happier?

This is my new guiding principle: Find a man of quality. Not a man who excites me but one who values me. Not a man who takes me to the moon and then vanishes off to New York but one who takes me to…Bracknell, maybe.

These academic guys have to feel important. They give papers and present TV programs to show they're useful and valuable. But you do useful, valuable work every day. You don't need to prove anything. How many people have you treated? Hundreds. You've reduced their pain. You've made hundreds of people happier. Has Antony Tavish made anyone happier?" I'm sure there's something wrong

But if you're a lawyer at Carter Spink, you don't sit around. Not when every six minutes of your time is worth money. If I let six minutes of time tick away, I've lost the firm £50. Twelve minutes, £100. Eighteen minutes, £150. And the truth is, you get used to measuring your life in little chunks. And you get used to working. All the time.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Of all vile things current on earth, none is so vile as money.

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.

Tis better not to be than to vilely live. Greedy of gain is every barbarous tribe.

For dullards know not goodness in their hand, Nor prize the jewel till 'tis cast away.

though it costs a little sorrow in the bargain