Value Quotes

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.

Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.

America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value.

You know that they're not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

I don't value prizes of any sort.