Value Quotes

Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?

~ Russell Smith

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

~ Boris Pasternak

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

~ Milan Kundera

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

~ Alan Greenspan

I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.

~ Paul Theroux

You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.

~ James Altucher

There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

~ J. G. Ballard

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

~ C. S. Lewis

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

~ Georg Cantor

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

~ Thomas A. Edison

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

~ Francis Ford Coppola

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

~ Robert Hall

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

~ Barbara Bush

I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.

~ Brandon Stanton

We face cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, global cyber syndicates, and terrorists. They seek our state secrets, our trade secrets, our technology, and our ideas - things of incredible value to all of us. They seek to strike our critical infrastructure and to harm our economy.

~ James Comey

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

~ Narendra Modi

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

~ Carl Sagan

In a way, NAFTA is like a scrambled egg. How do you unscramble an egg? The value chains are so interwoven that it would be very difficult to do that. But government policies force us to look for ways to unscramble it.

~ Shahid Khan

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

~ Karl Marx

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

~ Chester A. Arthur

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

~ John Ralston Saul

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.

~ Gaston Caperton

At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.

~ Sebastian Thrun

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

~ Gavin Newsom

A judge's role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgments and policy choices the legislature has made.

~ Paul Watford

When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value.

~ Elizabeth Warren

For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars.

~ Alex Berenson

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

~ John Mccain

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

~ Myles Munroe

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

~ Michel De Montaigne

There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.

~ Barbara Park

City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there's nothing left but Peter Martins' smile.

~ Robert Gottlieb

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

~ Nicholas Haslam

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon... what it means to you.

~ Christopher Mccandless

Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.

~ Jeffrey Gitomer