Quotes About Values

the triad of human perfection": knowledge, judgment, and character.

I used to say blood might be thicker than water, but water tasted better -Star

Character is who you are when nobody else is watching," he wrote in one of his books—the undeniable, hokey truth.

Hay 3 cosas que siempre vamos a preferir: lo bueno, lo útil y lo placentero.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all                       

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, showing what kind of things a man chooses or avoids.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Teachers should be more honored than parents, for whereas parents give their children life, teachers give their children a good life

What a society honors will be cultivated.

Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society

Tolerance and Apathy are the last virtues of a dying society

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Aquellos que educan bien a los niños deberían ser más honorados que los que los producen; los primeros solo les dan la vida, los segundos el arte de vivir bien (Aristóteles)

Happiness above all seems to be of this character, for we always choose it on account of itself and never on account of something else. Yet honor, pleasure, intellect, and every virtue we choose on their own account—for even if nothing resulted from them, we would choose each of them—but we choose them also for the sake of happiness, because we suppose that, through them, we will be happy.

Could you conjugate that? To sleaze. I sleaze. You sleaze. We all have sleazen.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Then the question is, are we worried about the wishes of the patient or about the money involved?

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Many of the fundamental physical constants-which as far as one could see, God could have given any value He liked-are in fact very precised adjusted, or fine-tuned, to produce the only kind of Universe that makes our existence possible.

life was not a joyride at an amusement park. It was a deadly serious affair and only through a combination of solid values, self-control, and a steady commitment to a worthwhile goal was there a chance to achieve happiness.

Historically, both fear and public opinion were notoriously unconcerned about morality.

Western man had relearned—what the rest of the world had never forgotten—that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

It'll wash. Better I be a little dirty than a child be hurt. Clothes can be replaced. Children should always be cherished. (Ioel)

Would you think I ought to give up my painting just for a home and a couple of lousy children with running noses?