Quotes About Value

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Didn't Jesus say something disparaging about casting pearls before swine?

Everything we do means something.

I sold my brother," Valentine said, "and they paid me for it.

He pulled out a single half-blackened disc of bronze. Money, he said. You get it by working, and then you trade it for things you want. But it's so small, said Runnel. So's your wit, said the man, and turned away.

Now that she knew credit cards were valuable, Baba Yaga began to collect as many of them as she could.

He was much more useful as a name and a story than he would ever be as an inconvenient flesh-and-blood person.

What's worthless to you might not be worthless to me.

You have always been useless. But that doesn't mean you aren't necessary. What do you mean? Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as useful ones.

Money and talent aren't the same thing." "That's because you can inherit money that was earned by your ancestors," said Sister Carlotta. "And everybody recognizes the value of money, while only select groups recognize the value of talent.

The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. We don't throw our forces away because every soldier is the queen of a one-member hive. But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong — for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives.

They offered something that was genuinely good, and people's lives were better because they offered it. It was not a noble cause that would get written up in the histories. But it was not nothing, either. A person could do worse than spend some large percentage of his life in a cause like that. Bean

And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich. Money and talent aren't the same thing. That's because you can inherit money that was earned by your ancestors, said Sister Carlotta. And everybody recognizes the value of money, while only select groups recognize the value of talent.

there some great wisdom to be gained by calibrating exactly how worthless a mind I have?

Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as in useful ones.

La felicidad puede depender tan fácilmente de las cosas útiles como de las inútiles.

So you choose to measure by the only standard that allows your life to be meaningless?

Sometimes people with the least that is worth stealing are the most concerned with giving the appearance of having great treasures hidden away.

He was scum, and so it was all right that they treated him like scum.' 'And you think he wasn't?' 'No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.