Quotes About Value

L'intelligenza e l'educazione che non siano temperate dall'affetto umano non valgono nulla.

Ma io so adesso che voi tutti avete trascurato una cosa: l'intelligenza e l'educazione che non siano temperate dall'affetto umano non valgono nulla.

Inteligência e educação sem doses de afeto humano não valem droga nenhuma.

Explanations need not be valid to be of value. In religion, as in other fields of inquiry, a suggestive and original theory can, even in failure, stimulate new inquiry or reformulate problems in such a way as to promote fruitful new understandings. (p.10).

You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.

All the major world religions (always excluding animism, of course), are founded on these notions: that man and man alone was the desired object of creation, that man occupies a preeminent place in the order of creation, that man has a value in God's eyes that is transcendently greater than that of all other creatures, that this world of matter is illusory, transitory, and worthless.

People think I am being modest when I tell them I know absolutely nothing about art. But if they show me a piece of student work, I won't have the slightest idea whether it's art or even good. What I do know is whether such things hang or stand in the houses of the rich - or in the museums where the rich allow their treasures to be seen. And when people understand this, they'll instantly agree with what I said in the first place, that I know absolutely nothing about art.

It is necessary to lie to achieve anything of value. And a skilled liar is nearly impossible to detect.

January 1861, fell to 50 cents by June and, by the end of 1861, were down

You mean more to me than anyone in this whole wide world.

In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education… it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

I do not fear death, as I cherish life too much.

"The shekel is to consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina."

"Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel."

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

"Remember George, no man is a failure who has friends."

Time alone can prove the worth of friendship. As time goes by we lose the the false ones and keep the best. True friends stay when all the rest are gone.

They say love is more important than money…Have you tried paying your bills with a hug?

"For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come."

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

The value of new knowledge is greater to the person who already knows a lot. The more effort you put in, the more you get back per unit of effort. Knowledge violates the law of diminishing returns.

3. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone see its.