A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.