Quotes about Value
There is value, however, in skepticism of a less sweeping sort. That is to say that in general it is good to seek evidence when we are asked to change our beliefs in important ways.
— John Frame
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Is God obliged to force His gift on those who value it not?
— AW Pink
The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.
— Ashley Montagu
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
— Ayn Rand
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
— George Bernard Shaw
Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.
— George Bernard Shaw
But I wasn't worth doing wrong for---- nothing is in this world. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
— George Eliot
she is giving up a fortune for the sake of a man, and we men have so poor an opinion of each other that we can hardly call a woman wise who does that.
— George Eliot
No one thinks of your appearance, you are so sensible and useful, Mary. Beauty is of very little consequence in reality
— George Eliot
When land is gone and money's spent, Then learning is most excellent.
— George Eliot