Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

“It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

“Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)