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- Nov 07, 2020
Worth Quotes
On value that only shows itself with time.
These worth quotes weigh value in different ways — skills that turn out worthless in practice, a refusal to fight over things not worth the trouble, and the idea that true worth only shows up over time rather than immediately. The theme runs close to Good quotes, another collection about what actually matters.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
- Concern
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
- IQ
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- Nov 07, 2020