“to take ones word at face value lacks sufficient evaluation to benefit the reader or leader” — Joseph W. Parker Copy Share Image
I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value. — Tamron Hall Copy Share Image
A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
If the response you finally receive from me is 'thanks but no thanks', then please accept at face value that I would… — David S. Rose Copy Share Image
It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the… — Shane Warne Copy Share Image
“People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements.… — William Missouri Downs Copy Share Image
Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
I've always looked like I have a sort of bad-boy image as Too Short. People take that for face value. I kind… — Too Short Copy Share Image
“Jesus certainly was not a “Bible believer,” as we use that term in the post Billy Graham era of American fundamentalist religiosity… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“We must work—in the words of New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton—to really see each other. Perhaps the reason we struggle… — Historica Press Copy Share Image
When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“All progress, ultimately, is the result of playing with ideas and seeing new ways of connecting existing knowledge in such a way… — John Pollack Copy Share Image
Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be 'so bad they were good'. They were not made… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I think you feel more liberated in a foreign country. You're more open. You understand less about the social constructs that exist… — Sophie Copy Share Image
I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
“These senior claims were supposed to be very low-risk; after all, how likely was it that a large number of people would… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I think seeing is about truly looking, observing, and taking things in with an open mind. It's easy to see things at… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
“An important aspect of Kaplan’s New York Observer and its self-conscious inside media baseball was that the paper became the prime school… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“I resolutely refuse to believe that the state of Edward's health had anything to do with this, and I don't say this… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The debate over whether the sacred book was created or existed eternally had enormous practical implications. The Mu’tazilites developed a method of… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Telling a depressed person things like “Pull yourself out of it” is cruel and may reinforce the feelings of worthlessness, guilt, and… — Francis Mark Mondimore Copy Share Image
“Before anyone could be delivered, everybody betrayed everybody. The Jews no longer knew which current to swim, and brother turned against brother.… — A.J. Deus Copy Share Image
“No Christian friends, please, we’re Muslims The Koran warns Muslims that the Jews and pagans will be their worst enemies, but “nearest… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
“11 WAYS TO BE UNREMARKABLY AVERAGE 1. Accept what people tell you at face value. 2. Don’t question authority. 3. Go to… — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
Not only are the studies themselves often lacking even face value, but they also drain badly needed funds away from patient care… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the… — Shane Warne Copy Share Image
I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
I literally met someone randomly out... my friend started giving him a nickname, and they called him 'Tinder Swindler.' They're like, 'He's… — Larsa Pippen Copy Share Image
“was never one for accepting convention at face value, but through (plenty of) trial and error I have made working hard, being… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
When I was younger I would be taken for a ride alot, I would believe anybody at face value, I was quite… — Richa Chadha Copy Share Image
Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever you want, you have the power to attain it. The man or woman who calmly and matter-of-factly accepts this pronouncement at… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
After the heavily politicized 2007 Iran NIE, many of us in Congress found it hard to take some intelligence analysis at face value. — Pete Hoekstra Copy Share Image
The people in the world who don't know my background, don't know my story, don't know anything about me, they're gonna judge… — Nav Copy Share Image
“Because here’s the thing I’m finally getting savvy to: just because I think it, doesn’t make it true. Every thought that comes… — Lisa-Jo Baker Copy Share Image
I learned to question everything you read. Don't take anything at face value. Don't care what other people say. I liked that… — Robert Bilott Copy Share Image
