Quotes About Value

True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things—old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Friends are thieves of time.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

If a book is not worth reading twice, it is not worth reading once.

Kebijaksanaan dalam berbicara lebih berharga daripada kefasihan.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Kendi deÄŸeri olmayan bir insan baÅŸkalar?n?n deÄŸerini hiçbir zaman çekemez. Çünkü insan gönlü, ya kendi üstünlüÄŸünü ya da baÅŸkalar?n?n kötülüÄŸü ile beslenmek ister.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

I don't think there's any artist of any value that does not doubt what they're doing.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

For Nietzsche, the very essence of man was neither his desire nor his reason, but his thymos: man was above all a valuing creature, the "beast with red cheeks" who found life in his ability to pronounce the words "good" and "evil.

The implication is that any successful order needs to suppress the power of kinship through some mechanism that makes the guardians value their ties to the state over their love for their families.

Human beings are rule-following animals by nature; they are born to conform to the social norms they see around them, and they entrench those rules with often transcendent meaning and value. When the surrounding environment changes and new challenges arise, there is often a disjunction between existing institutions and present needs. Those institutions are supported by legions of entrenched stakeholders who oppose any fundamental change.

Please don't say . . . ; 'NO'! to Me, . . . I'm a person worth 'Knowing'!.

Only useless things are indispensable.

Knowledge is never too dear.

Personally, I think, so what? Money's just a thing and things change. That's what I've found. One minute something's really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it just melts away, like a Hershey's kiss.

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.