Quotes About Value

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

Wisdom that don't make us happier ain't worth plowing for.

No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

The true value of a gift is the sentiment behind the gifting.

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.