Quotes About Value

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious

sin embargo, el conocimiento más delgado que se puede obtener de las cosas más altas es más deseable que el conocimiento más cierto obtenido de las cosas menores

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!

Sometimes I wonder if a friendship in which the common ground is all that is bad about each person is a friendship worth having.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than to die rich

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless peddles

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

In this sense every serious choice has a tragicomic dimension. For it is impossible to be a human being without choosing, and it is impossible to choose without value denials, and it is impossible to deny values without guilt. That is a very simple though, but it forms the core definition of guilt: an awareness of significant value loss for which I know myself to be responsible. Guilt is the self-knowing of moral loss.

Faith's premises are felt to be so valuable that they deserve the best intellectual reflection possible to confirm argumentatively what faith already knows inwardly

Since time is no longer cyclical but one-way and irreversible, personal history is now possible and an individual life can have value.

Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble…. A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

the worst waste, that of time.

Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European, still it has features, and glorious ones, unknown to Europe...the most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wildness