T Quotes
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“The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.”
Source: The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree
“The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.”
Source: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition
“The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.”
“The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.”
“The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.”
Source: Adam Bede
“The vainglory of wishing to understand is dangerous, immoral and, above all, old-fashioned. The modern way – perhaps the final way - is to say: Go forward, without knowing why, as quickly as possible, towards an unknown goal! To act and think are opposites which identify one only in the Absolute. To accomplish all one's movements – of the head, the arms, the legs – without ever quite attaining the status of a puppet, but with a certainty that gives one a feeling of rightness: that is what is nowadays held up as the ideal. Be citizens of Universal activity! Forget to be conscious of ourselves! The blind horse gallops without hesitation, not knowing where it is going, not caring where it has been: so let up put out our eyes!”
“The valid point or a valuable contribution of a deserving person has not been truly appreciated if he is respected equally with those people who only desire but don’t actually deserve to be applauded.”
“The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.”
“The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some antecedent, upon the existence of which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent.”
Source: A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation
“The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it to vanish from being. Mathematical propositions, if true, are eternal verities.”
Source: The pastures of wonder: the realm of mathematics and the realm of science
“The validity of the cook's work is to be found only in the mouths of those at her table; she needs their approbation, demands that they appreciate her dishes and call for second helpings; she is upset if they are not hungry, to the point that one wonders whether the fried potatoes are for her husband or her husband for the fried potatoes.”
Source: The Second Sex
“The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.”
“the valley in your life are temporary. they will pass away”
Source: The Complete Leader
“The Valley of the Kings is extremely quiet, as silent as death; there are only countless tombs among the verdant trees, and it seems that there will never be a breath of living person.
The young man practiced very hard. Every day, regardless of the wind and sun, he sat cross-legged on a white rock every day and closed his eyes. While sitting, sometimes he will fly up from the ground, open his arms and whirl in the air like a bird; other times he will summon all kind of animals, let them dance in line, make them advance and retreat in an orderly manner; and some other times he would open the palm of his hand and lotus flowers would bloom into his hand, then it would turn into various forms of clouds…”
Source: Zhuyan (With Prequel of Mirror) 朱颜
“The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.”
“The valley of trouble is the gateway way to treasures of hope.”
“The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.”
Source: A translation of Lao Tzu's Tao te ching and Wang Pi's commentary
“The valleys are covered with fog; mountains are covered with fog; everywhere is covered with fog! What to do? Don't worry, if your mind is not covered with fog, you will find your path! When mind's vision is clear, you can always see everywhere!”
“The valleys, with their gentle streams and lush meadows, are just as unique as the majestic mountains.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.”
“The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.”
“The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and indignation of every spectator whose mind was not totally darkened by religious prejudice. The compositions of ancient genius, so many of which have irretrievably perished, might surely have been excepted from the wreck of idolatry, for the amusement and instruction of succeeding ages.”
Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)
“The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.”
“The valuable prediction test on how you will spend $100 million dollars if you happen to win a lottery is to look on how you spent your last month's salary! With 100% precision the two expenditures will have the same proportions.”
“The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should therefore be conducted with care in order to form a perfect union of the powdered cement, sand and water. This can be best accomplished by the use of the New England corn hoe on a board floor or by beating with a hand stamper; not much labour is required if properly applied. Mechanics can judge when the mixture is perfect by the appearance of the mortar, which, when properly prepared, very much resembles putty.”
“The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a higher value to the good he receives than to that he gives away. The exchange ratio, the price, is not the product of equality of valuation, but on the contrary, the product of a discrepancy in valuation.”
“The value-added Board brings the high-performance result, “deep common sense,” balance, improved strategic thinking, creativity, wisdom and more.”
Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
“The 'Value' addition is that sweetening choice which produces the gratifying Change in the product you intend to process.”
“The value afforded time is shown by how it is spent”
Source: Time May Never Tell: A Time Travel Murder Mystery
“The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.”
Source: Collected Stories of Carson McCullers
“The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.”
Source: The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds
“The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.”
Source: Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defence
“The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.”
“The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game.”
“The value-driven AI rests on four pillars: human safety and human rights; strong ethical and unbiased legal systems; morality-driven media; and morality-based business and research. They complement each other.”
Source: Value Driven Artificial Intelligence Principles and Practices
“The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.”
“The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.”
Source: Christian Reflections
“The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am coming back with full passion and desperation to climb the unclimbed hills again and again!”
“The value is always in the eye of the beholder. What is worthless to one person may be very important to someone else.”
Source: Chatterton
“The value is in the worth, not in the number.”
Source: Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection
“The value is not in the art, whether there are more artists or less artists, the value depends on it.”
“The value is not in the noise one makes on socialmedia but the voice - the message being heard”
“The value of "one person, one vote," the value of equality, is a value that was given to us more than 50 years ago as a central part of our constitutional tradition. So, under that principle, we ought to be applying the same standard today that I would have said we should have applied a year ago.”
“The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.”
Source: Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling
“The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.”
“The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.”
Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne
“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think”
“The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve.”
“The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.”