Quotes about Value

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in your years.

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Precious things are for those that can prize them.

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it—just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her.

We are seekers of beauty, but avoid extravagance. We admire learning, but are unimpressed by pedantry. For us, wealth is an aim for its value when used, not as an empty boast. And the disgrace of poverty lies not in the admission of it, but more in the failure to avoid it in practice.