Quotes with value-judgments

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  • Frederick Frieseke Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value?
    Frederick Frieseke
    American-born French painter (1874 - 1939)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Andrew Taylor Still Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
    Andrew Taylor Still
    American physician and surgeon (1828 - 1917)
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  • Brad Henry Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • C. S. Lewis Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
    A Preface to Paradise Lost (1941)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Walter Benjamin Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Bill Drayton Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global 'team of teams' that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Alice Meynell Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Paul Valery Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Joe Batten Our value is the sum of our values.
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  • Barry Eisler Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Wallace Stevens Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Sidney Madwed 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.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Tacitus Posterity gives every man his true value.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Samuel Johnson Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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