Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone Weil

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
Simone Weil

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. Clarke

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
Vivien Leigh

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
Arnold Bennett

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Huxley

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
Jesse Jackson

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
Morrie Schwartz

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
Aung San Suu Kyi

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
Samuel Johnson

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
Charlotte Bronte

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
James Thurber

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
Dawn French

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Charles Lindbergh

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
Hermann Hesse

When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.
Carroll Quigley