Favorite Quotations
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Values
George Carlin: All My Stuff
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values? ~ Alan Greenspan Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it away. ~ Sophocles There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.~ Charles Dudley Warner That which cost little is less valued. ~ Miguel De Cervantes If you want to know the value of an individual, ask not for the sum of all that he owns, but look instead to the total of all that he has given. ~ Douglas K. Freeman Every man I meet is in some way my superior. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. ~ Mark Twain What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.~ Thomas Paine Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.~ Albert Einstein Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~ Confucius Your soul has a single basic function—the act of valuing.~ Ayn Rand 1 | 2
"All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not." ~ Samuel Johnson