Best values & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Virtue is not a chemical product...it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key.”

Ifs Mean Care Values Literature Lost Language Virtue Products Keys Morality Cease Chemicals Meaningless Historic Transmit

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Using SROI to explore the value of our online question and answer service, askTheSite, helped us develop new mechanisms for speaking to young people and gain a real insight into the impact of our work. The project enabled us to demonstrate YouthNets commitment to robust impact measurement as well as our commercial approach to project evaluation. Perhaps most importantly, being able to assign a monetary value to askTheSite has enabled YouthNet to convey to current and potential funders how valuable the service is for both young people and the wider society in a language that they understand”

“We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have long since replaced by more elaborate forms. But it is at least presumable that they could still detect in our speech, at least when it is public and elaborate, the underlying tone values with which it began. Thus if we could take a gibbon ape to a college public lecture, he would not understand it, but he would "get a good deal of it." This is all the students get anyway.”

Ifs Long Stills Form Values Language Deals Study Special Students College Communication Speech Direct Communicate Tone Replaced Lectures Apes

Book:Leacock on Life

Source: Leacock on Life

“The great shift... is the movement away from the value-laden languages of... the "humanities," and toward the ostensibly value-neutral languages of the "sciences." This attempt to escape from, or to deny, valuation is... especially important in psychology... and the so-called social sciences. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that the specialized languages of these disciplines serve virtually no other purpose than to conceal valuation behind an ostensibly scientific and therefore nonvaluational semantic screen.”

Important Purpose Values Humanity Language Social Behinds Psychology Movement Discipline Deny Screens Social Science Valuation

Author:Thomas Szasz

“The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.”

Art Form Values Culture Language Clear Survival Intellectual Capacity Imaginative Employing

Book:The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution

Source: The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution

“I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. And this right hemispheric denigration would manifest in two principal ways: Women's rights would be taken away, and images would be declared abominations.”

Way Two Would Be Values Culture Left Language Taken Rights Manifest Principal Womens Rights Alphabet Adopting Reception Abomination

Author:Leonard Shlain

“I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial learning process. The things we now do automatically, such as perspective, pencil control, values and composition were as unfamiliar and intimidating as a foreign language.”

“The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.”

World Giving Real Values Language Process Feminism Influence Empowering Real Work Value Systems

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.”

Thinking Doe Would Be Values Language Decision Technology One Thing Bases Method Dependent Decision Making Excluded Good Place High Technology

Author:Ann Druyan

“I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps. Nor am I even quite sure that there is a definite question of fact as to whether natural language should be evaluated by the minimal fixed point or another, given the choice of a scheme for handling gaps. We are not at the moment searching for the correct scheme.”

Should Moments Facts Values Choices Language Given Natural Handle Fixed Gaps Schemes Uncertain Definite Factual

Author:Saul Kripke

“Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?”

Different Use Values Language Force Essentials Degrees Shadow Assuming Appearance Painter Sufficient Opposition Shade Rationality Lighters True And False Different Values

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“I see myself as a traditionalist. I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually, as the songs started to come together, I followed that lead, which is the language I work in.”

Has Beens Together Values Song Language Traditional Substance Proven

Author:Jakob Dylan

“You live in a society that is shaped in every possible way by the Bible. The language you use, the laws you obey (and disobey), the founding principles of your nation, the disputes about abortion, homosexuality, adultery - these and so much else in your world are rooted in the Bible. You don't have to read it for its truth value. You should read it to understand how your world got the way it is, the way you would read the constitution or Shakespeare.”

World Way Should Use Law Values Language Nations Principles Constitution Abortion Rooted Homosexuality Founding Disputes Adultery

Author:David Plotz

“Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.”

Ideas Use Used Purpose Values Evil Language Emotion Moral Virtue Ignorance Skills Tools Variety Manners Code Carrie Moral Values

Book:Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson

Source: Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson

“The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.”

Values Language Effort Behinds Paper Labels Intrinsic Value Paper Money

Book:News from the World: Stories and Essays

Source: News from the World: Stories and Essays

“What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use language, understand your heritage, interpret your history, identify with your kin, figure out what your meaning and worth to a society that places values on you beyond your control. And it's also about what people see you as - or take you to be.”

People Littles Use Values Language Race Blood Figures Biology Heritage

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct consequence of the fact that linguistic signs are unrelated to what they designate and that, therefore, 'a' cannot designate anything without the the aid of 'b' and vice versa, or, in other words, that both have value only by the difference between them.”

Facts Law Values Language Term Differences Consequence Direct Ultimate Vices Dare Aids Vice Versa

Author:Ferdinand de Saussure

“If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?”

Ifs Government Law Values Culture Language Integrity Immigrants Rule Of Law

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I have heard it said that the success of a work abroad is the best test of its enduring value. I doubt whether this is at all trustworthy; but judged by this standard my name ought to last for a few years.”

Years Has Beens Said Book Country Lasts Values Names Language Doubt Heard Ought Standards Tests England Endure Judged Autobiography Trustworthy Foreign Countries

Book:The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29:

Source: The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29:

“All propositions are of equal value.”

Values Language Equal Logic Propositions

Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.”

Littles Stills Hard Faces Values Names Language Nations Cities New York Changed Hard Work Accomplishment Decent Neighborhood Value Of Hard Work

Author:David Dinkins

“[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!”

Humans Heart Hard Use Values Names Speak Language Friendship Knowing Doubt Friends Creatures Tasks Assuming Pity Surround Suspicion Maxims Use Of Language

Author:Sarah Fielding

“My friend had a brilliant idea. This impressed me. It reflected an immense deal of credit on his brain. But when he expressed it,it lost all value, and enjoyed but a commonplace status. My friend blamed this devaluation on the language. "I hate English," he said. So he studied another language. He mastered it so perfectly that there was no room left in his brain for a brilliant idea. Now he has a grudge against words. He refuses to use them. He prefers to shrug or grunt. A new crop of ideas is growing. They show promise of future refinement.”

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