Quotes About Value

not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.

The more we pay for any truth, the better is our bargain.

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.

Love has no value in the absence of truth.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

Truth is life's most precious commodity.

You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it.

The biggest misconception people have is that quality is all that matters. The truth is that quality helps, but there's a ton of high-quality things that don't go anywhere.

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth of Buddhism, a truth I could not as yet conceive in those days.

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

A story has value whether it's true or not.