This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion.
Experience | Worth |
Jerome Bruner, fully Jerome Seymour Bruner
I can think of only two good criteria [for whether an item is worth knowing]: Whether the knowledge gives a sense of delight and whether it bestows the gift of intellectual travel beyond the information given.
He who knows enough of things to value them at their true worth never says too much; for he can also judge of the attention bestowed on him and the interest aroused by what he says. People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.
Attention | Display | Enough | Little | Man | Men | People | Worth | Value |
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Gold | Price | Self-sacrifice | Worth |
An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.
Freedom | Mistake | Observation | Worth |
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion.
Experience | Worth |
Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.
Conscience | Good | Worth |
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.
A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential.
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
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