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“When a concept has been understood intellectually, if the learning is to be of value then a connection with personal feelings, inner knowing and experience has to be made, and consideration of how the information would best be applied.”

Ifs Has Beens Made Feelings Wisdom Values Knowing Information Understood Concepts Connections Consideration Personal Feelings

Author:Peter Shepherd

“The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values and purposes that should direct his conduct is the deepest problem modern life. It is the problem of any philosophy that is not isolated from life.”

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Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929

“At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage earner - the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction - is practically defenseless.”

Source: Special message, August 8th, 1893. Extract from third annual message, December 2nd, 1895

“When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.”

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Author:Edmund Fuller

“The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and to fall on somebody; it must take on those who have property to meet it, and probably on the less cautious part, who, not aware of the impending catastrophe, have suffered themselves to contract, or to be in debt, and must now sacrifice their property of a value many times the amount of the debt. We have been truly sowing the wind, and are now reaping the whirlwind.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.”

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Author:Lewis Mumford

“How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!”

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Book:Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

“One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.”

World Two Wisdom Faces Values Politics Economy Four Mankind Six Scales Rhythm Liberalism Torn Vibrations Disparity Torn Apart

Book:The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Source: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

“Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.”

May Long Wisdom Pain Lasts Values Pay Cost Judgment Deeper Teeth Eggs Nuts You Choose Hunting Cheese Foxes Coats Worms Hens Palate Maggots

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.”

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Book:Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott

Source: Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott

“When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.”

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Author:Andy Andrews

“There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.”

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Author:Peter Brodie