Quotes About Values

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.