Quotes About Values

Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about.

Work on your character, let life fall into place.

We need to START buying our KIDS more ($00.50) BOOKS and less ($50.00) Video-Games

If you need someone to explain morality to you, then you likely have little of it to draw from.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

People says you are not going to take anything with you at the end but people, mind that you are going to leave a lot behind you.So be precise for your deeds n trail you left. :)

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends it'll get you the right ones

If the wealth you've accumulated is in the form of friends, family and books, then you're doing life right.

You want to get your kid into Harvard? You really want to know what the data say? I'll tell you what the data say! Go home and love your wife!

There's a rich irony, in other words, in the insistence that magical thinking is less useful than scientific thinking, because magical thinking is exactly the form of human thought that deals with the realm of motivations, values, and goals that scientific thinking handles so poorly.

could be accomplished by a shift in priorities that involves accepting less prosperous lifestyles, and embraces rich personal, intellectual, and social lives as substitutes for, or even improvements on, the material extravagance that the industrial nations currently offer their more favored inmates.

Life is too short and too precious to waste it living out someone else's values. We must find our own.

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

I suppose people of our generation aren't able to die for good causes any longer. We had all that done for us, in the thirties and the forties, when we were still kids. ...There aren't any good, brave causes left. (Jimmy Porter)

Materialism has made you worship Mammon and in this material world everything comes too easily. Heat comes too easily and cold. Money comes too easily. Don't forget that it will go as easily as well. We have all grown soft from this ease. Position changes easily. Values shift elusively. When everything is totalled up we have evolved a fine variety of flushing toilets but not a very good world.

leaving to the algorithm to determine the data patterns on its own. This type of algorithm tends to restructure the data into something else, such as new features that may represent a class or a new series of uncorrelated values.

Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, "What is permissible?"—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn't want a minimal life. I didn't want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

In my view, America's greatest need is for husbands to begin guiding their families, rather than pouring every physical and emotional resource into the mere acquisition of money.

Denying rights that protect lesser values to maintain rights that protect greater values is what good laws are supposed to do.

It is a bad idea to fixate on the wedding day while neglecting the rest of a marriage in which an initial virgin may stray into illicit beds. A onetime sexual tiger who becomes monogamous ( through sheer force of will or love) in marriage may deserve quite a bit more applause than the wedding-day virgin who later strays.