The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

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

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.

The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

They put their feelers out for all the names and then they'll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn't matter how much they love you, there's a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go.