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Face Value Quotes

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
- Max Bill

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.
- Danny Boyle

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

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

But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents' generation seems neither able nor interested in understanding how marketers exploit them. They take shopping at face value.
- Douglas Coupland

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.
- Doug Coupland

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
- Laura Dern

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

If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip.
- John Hutton

If you were to talk about your nose, I'd take everything you'd say at face value.
- Jarod Kintz

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.
- Mindy Kaling

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

Few things were so sure and simple that they could be taken at face value.
- William Kent Krueger

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
- Christopher Meloni

When people say they don't want to get into a relationship, it should never be taken into face value because it is never really the whole truth. It is usually a vast collection of issues and fears and complications, forced to conceal one tiny hope lurking underneath it all: that someday, somebody will come along to discover, accept and understand and strengthen that feeble hope.
- Marla Miniano

It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.
- Shemar Moore

The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants to create jobs or because he believes that it is in the best interests of the American people or that he is genuinely committed to making life better for people.
- Dee Dee Myers

Smile -- it increases your face value.
- Dolly Parton

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.
- Edward G Robinson

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

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