Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Karl Marx

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Thomas A. Edison

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Thomas A. Edison

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Marcus Aurelius

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
William Osler

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot

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

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Stephen Hawking

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Charles Spurgeon

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
Richard Dawkins

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Reinhold Niebuhr

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Lucille Ball

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Swami Vivekananda

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
Johnny Depp