“All intelligent investing is value investing—acquiring more than you are paying for.”
“Oh that we may have such an estimate of the value of a single soul that we count whole days well spent to bring one fallen woman or one drunkard to the Saviour’s feet.”
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
—Carl Jung
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
—Oscar Wilde
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
—Thomas Edison
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
—Georg Hegel
The kinder and more rational a person is, the more he recognizes himself in others. A stupid, unkind person thinks that all other people are alien to him. A wise and kind person knows that the most valuable thing within him is also within every other person.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
—Sigmund Freud
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one’s self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
—Michelangelo
Life has no meaning a priori.. It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
—Vincent Van Gogh
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
—Stephen Hawking
When people study for themselves, what they learn is always useful; if they study to achieve praise, it has less value; if they study for the sake of money, what they learn is always harmful.
—Leo Tolstoy
Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man’s personal value is large or small.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
—Thomas Jefferson
Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.
—William Shakespeare
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
—Charles Darwin
To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with
—Seneca
The value of a man is measured in the number of those who stand beside him, not those who follow.
—Socrates
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
—Immanuel Kant
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 opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
—Marcus Aurelius
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
—Marcus Aurelius
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
—Albert Einstein
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent
—Isaac Newton
All endeavours, all attempts for communion with God, without the supplies of the Spirit of supplications, without his effectual working in the heart, is of no value, nor to any purpose.
—John Owen
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
—John Locke
Truths are not the better nor the worse for their obviousness or difficulty, but their value is to be measured by their usefulness and tendency.
—John Locke