value Quotes

“any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:pleasure value

“What is most truly valuable is often underrated.”

― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

topic:value

“Yes, the money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilisation. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than...”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

topic:society money value

“The art of our necessities is strange, that can make vile things precious.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

topic:hate need value

“In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

topic:misery value

“We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

topic:virtue value

“And yet nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish co-operation of many individuals.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

topic:kindness value

“The work is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to recognize; beyond that degree it is doubtful and mixed; lower down, it becomes terrible.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

topic:work value

“It made me aware that hard-won things are more valuable than those that come too easily.”

― Richard Branson, Screw It

topic:value difficulty

“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature . . . but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

topic:time reading value

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