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People overvalue information relative to curiosity, because curiosity brings you the information.

He had, as we have seen, his limitations—his bias to overvalue one order of qualities, and to disparage others.

Amongst scholars there is a disposition to overvalue it, and to develop out of it something which must be called "historyism."

If you succeed in making him overvalue himself, the poor rogue will be capable only of the lowest kind of trash!

We still overvalue ancient knowledge and former educational values.

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them: and to please an audience, as a speaker, one must not overvalue it.

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On this page you'll find 169 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overvalue, such as: err, misconstrue, misinterpret, misjudge, misread, and misunderstand.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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