Bequest Value Quotes

#1. It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as the potential heir of a cultural birthright, whereas a practical education has the nature of a commodity to be exchanged for position, status, wealth, etc., in the future. A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past. The practical educators assume that human society itself is the only significant context, that change is therefore fundamental, constant, and necessary, that the future will be wholly unlike the past, that the past is outmoded, irrelevant, and an encumbrance upon the future -- the present being only a time for dividing past from future, for getting ready.

But these definitions, based on division and opposition, are too simple. It is easy, accepting the viewpoint of either side, to find fault with the other. But the wrong is on neither side; it is in their division...

Without the balance of historic value, practical education gives us that most absurd of standards: "relevance," based upon the suppositional needs of a theoretical future. But liberal education, divorced from practicality, gives something no less absurd: the specialist professor of one or another of the liberal arts, the custodian of an inheritance he has learned much about, but nothing from. #Quote by Wendell Berry

#2. The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will, gave as much disappointment as pleasure. He was neither so unjust, nor so ungrateful, as to leave his estate from his nephew; - but he left it to him on such terms as destroyed half the value of the bequest. Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself or his son; - but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who most needed a provision by any charge on the estate, or by any sale of its valuable woods. The whole was tied up for the benefit of this child, who, in occasional visits with his father and mother at Norland, had so far gained on the affections of his uncle, by such attractions as are by no means unusual in children of two or three years old; an imperfect articulation, an earnest desire of having his own way, many cunning tricks, and a great deal of noise, as to outweigh all the value of all the attention which, for years, he had received from his niece and her daughters. He meant not to be unkind, however, and, as a mark of his affection for the three girls, he left them a thousand pounds a-piece. #Quote by Jane Austen

#3. And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities. #Quote by Rowan Atkinson

#4. I value loyalty way too much to waste it on folks who don't value me. #Quote by Alexandra Elle

#5. A value added life is a fruitful life #Quote by Sunday Adelaja

#6. I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have. #Quote by Susan Powter

#7. If a man realizes who he is, he is aware of his value #Quote by Sunday Adelaja

#8. DevOps shows how we optimize the IT value stream, converting business needs into capabilities and services that provide value for our customers. #Quote by Gene Kim

#9. I suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing. #Quote by Kenneth Branagh

#10. understand and value ur minute.God increase my value #Quote by Ikechukwu Joseph

#11. International peace negotiations need more value creation than value claiming. The more we create value for peace and development, the easier it is going to be to claim value for nuclear weapons free world. #Quote by Amit Ray

#12. Like the three points in a triangle, knowing your value, maintaining your value, and getting compensated for your value are essential in building professional stability and longevity. If the compensation or the opportunity sounds too good to be true - it probably is. Sooner or later, reality prevails over rhetoric. #Quote by Joe Jordan

#13. It's not the win that matters so much as recognizing and respecting its value. #Quote by Lorii Myers

#14. A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value. #Quote by Marty Rubin

#15. People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things. #Quote by Richard A. Kidd

#16. The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves. #Quote by Jeffrey Kluger

#17. If you only value my advice when I agree with you, you don't value it at all. #Quote by John Flanagan

#18. The newspaper offers something very different from Google's aggregators. It offers a value system, an idea of what matters in the world. Newspapers need to start articulating that value. #Quote by Evgeny Morozov

#19. People only value things in their life when it is taken away from them. #Quote by Bushra Satkhed

#20. Understanding the value of a security and whether it's trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating. #Quote by Coreen T. Sol

#21. Your face has a value, fix it today #Quote by Myra Yadav

#22. An unrewarded value is more valuable than a reward with no value. #Quote by Dejan Stojanovic

#23. In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it. #Quote by Joseph Addison

#24. What I value is the naked contact of a mind. #Quote by Virginia Woolf

#25. The rapid proliferation of cell phones in Afghanistan proves that anything that adds value to people's lives spreads like brushfire - and commerce is certainly a force that could add value for Afghanis. #Quote by Iqbal Quadir

#26. Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. #Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

#27. If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. #Quote by John Drinkwater

#28. Only expectation has value as currency, #Quote by Brandon Sanderson

#29. Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead of some sophisticated task. #Quote by Clay Shirky