Quotes About Value

typical of the so-called "good Jewish bourgeoisie," which gave such marked value to Viennese culture, and which was requited by being completely uprooted

L'unicità diventa ogni giorno più preziosa in questo nostro mondo che irrimediabilmente va facendosi sempre più uniforme.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Women. They carried the whole world, one way or another, and they still felt like they weren't worth a hill of beans unless they got paid for their troubles. And troubles they had plenty of.

100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.

People say you don't know what you've got till it's gone, but the truth is you just never thought you'd ever lose it.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

The truth will always have a market.

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man

The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.

It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.