Perceived Worth Quotes

Money is just an idea.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.

Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

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

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.

What is aught but as 'tis valued?

The man that put that hurt look in your eyes, could be worth everything, or nothing at all.

This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But on it's emotional level it is purely a fiction. It becomes what you let it become.

But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.

If we give something value, it becomes valuable.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.

I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

Bitcoin is like anything else: it's worth what people are willing to pay for it.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

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.

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.

A Black Belt under the Nogueira Brothers is like saying I got a free toy in my happy meal