William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

If we give something value, it becomes valuable.

I think I am worth a lot of money.

No one has told me how much I'm worth, and I'm not trying to find out.

Sometimes the fighter or an athlete feels they're valued a certain price, and sometimes we don't feel that way.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.

I think that I'm always going to think that it's silly to value certain things that no matter how many people find it really valuable, it's always just going to seem a little silly to me.

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.

Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.

We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

I think anything you listen to is going to be different.

What is aught but as 'tis valued?

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

Maybe it's not as important to you as it was for me, but that's not for you to decide.