Face Value Quotes

• A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

  Washington Irving

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth.

  Mike Colter

  Faces, Dare, Values

  "Mike Colter: On Meditation, Good Writing, and Passion Projects". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.

  Kate Klise

  Coins, Faces, Librarian

  Kate Klise, M. Sarah Klise (2011). “Till Death Do Us Bark”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I used to take everything at face value. Because, when I say something, I mean it... so I used to feel that everybody else meant what they said. But of course that wasn't true. And life isn't that sweet and simple.

  Sharon Tate

  Sweet, Mean, Simple

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• Smile, it enhances your face value.

  Dolly Parton

  Faces, Your Face, Values

  Twitter post from Aug 02, 2010

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• You should not take your intuitions at face value.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Intuition, Faces, Should

  "Kahneman and Klein on strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Gary Klein, bobmorris.biz. September 25, 2016.

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• Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value. The persistent minority forces the others to process the relevant information more mindfully. Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Taken, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

  Douglas Coupland

  Mean, Brain, Twenties

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• Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

  Dale Archer

  Real, Liars, Personality

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• I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what I see. I don't accept things at face value, you cannot trust what you hear or see. Don't jump to conclusions without thinking.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Thinking, Looks, Faces

  FaceBook post by Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad from Jan 26, 2013

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• I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.

  David Levithan

  Faces, Valuable, I Can

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.64, Penguin

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• When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information

  Thomas Gilovich

  People, Mind, May

  Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

  Mindy Kaling

  Media, People, Faces

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• The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Friendship, Giving

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXI)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Mistake, Simple, Silence

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• Smile, it increases you face value.

  Dolly Parton

  Attitude, Faces, Increase

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• I grew up in a very politically aware family. My mother always taught me to question everything, never believing anything simply at face value - especially the nicest, most adamant politicians.

  Dave Matthews

  Mother, Believe, Faces

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• Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Weed, Marijuana, People

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• I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were.

  Shane Warne

  Past, Thinking, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better.

  Ernest Gaines

  Giving, Advice, Pieces

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• It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.

  Robert McKee

  Believe, Faces, Skeptic

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• My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.

  Erykah Badu

  Grandmother, People, Judging

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• Open mind all the way. Because people have had eyewitness accounts, they've seen things, they swear they've seen things, and I tend to believe in people rather than - maybe I'm a little naive, but my optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.

  Rhys Darby

  Believe, Optimistic, Outlook On Life

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.

  Rhys Darby

  Optimistic, Outlook On Life, Being Positive

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.

  Antonio Damasio

  Sorry, Emotional, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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