Highest Valued

Famous quotes containing the words highest and/or valued:

“To the degree that respect for professors ... has risen in our society, respect for writers has fallen. Today the professorial intellect has achieved its highest public standing since the world began, while writers have come to be called “men of letters,” by which is meant people who are prevented by some obscure infirmity from becoming competent journalists.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)

“A person far from home is not valued highly, but goods imported from afar are.”
—Chinese proverb.