Well-informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.

-Anonymous
  Editorial in the Boston Post.

He who has not travelled does not know the value of a man.

-Anonymous
Arab proverb. Quoted in Ingrid Cranfield TheChallengers (1976), preface.

The most fundamental value of a liberal education isthat it makes life more interesting.

-Brewster, Kingman,Jr
Recalled on his death in the NewYork Times, 9 Nov1988.

   La ve¤  rite¤  , comme la lumie'  re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre¤  puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

-Camus, Albert
  La Chute (translated by Stuart Gilbert).

When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science† When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

-Dewey,John
  Reconstruction in Philosophy.

The phonograph†is not of any commercial value.

-Edison,Thomas Alva
c.1860  Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull. Edison hoped that his invention would find a place in businesses and offices, rather than in the entertainment world. Quoted in Robert  A Conot  A Streak of Luck: The Life and Legend of  Thomas Edison (1979).

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.2.

The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life.Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, courageöthey exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.'

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
  A Passage to India, ch.14.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects.

-Fulbright,J(ames) William
  Speech to the US Senate, 21  Apr.

Whatever the economic value of the domestic industry of women is, they do not get it. The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

-Gilman and Charlotte Perkins Stetson
  Women and Economics:  A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, ch.1.

Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever† Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would no longer be the daily possibility of love dying.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
  The Quiet  American, pt.1, ch.3.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

-Hazlitt,William
  Political Essays,'On the Clerical Character'.

We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.

-Hicks, SirJohn Richard
  Value and Capital (2nd edn).

The value, or worth of a man, is as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.

-Hobbes,Thomas
Leviathan, pt.1, ch.10.

Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.

-Jevons,William Stanley
The Theory of Political Economy.

Always,Sir, set a highvalue onspontaneouskindness.He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attract to you.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, May. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained. 477

-Kohlberg,Jerome,Jr
Quoted in Sarah Bartlett  The Money Machine (1991).

En ve¤  rite¤  , plus je vis, et plus je suis tente¤   de croire qu'il n'y a que vous et moi dans le monde, qui valions quelque chose. Intruth, themore I live, themore Iamtemptedtobelieve that only you and I are of any value at all in the world.

-Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de
  Les Liaisons dangereuses, letter100.

Nothing is more difficult than to determine what a child takes in, and does not take in, of its environment and its teaching. This fact is brought home to me by the hymns which I learned as a child, and never forgot. They mean more to me almost than the finest poetry, and they have for me a more permanent value, somehow or other.

-Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
Collected in Phoenix II: Uncollected, Unpublished and Other Prose Works (1968).

The thing depicted is less stationary, even the object in itself is less discernible than it used to be. A landscape broken into and traversed in a car or an express train losesindescriptivevaluebut gainsinsynthetic value; the window of the railroad carriage or the windshield of the car, combined withthespeed at whichyou aretraveling, have changed the familiar look of things. Modern man registers one hundred times more impressions than did an eighteenth century artist.

-Le¤  ger, Fernand
Quoted in D Cooper The Cubist Epoch (1970).