Estimating is what you do when you don't know.

In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers…

— Norm MacDonald

It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the…

— Lord Dunsany

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first…

— Thomas Jefferson

Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger…

— Thomas George Bonney

There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it…

— John Muir

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

— Howard Gardner

In evaluating potential vendors, accurately estimating total cost of ownership is critical. Yet, this is often an area where companies don't put the right…

— Dan Gillmor

“Well, yes, software people are terrible at estimating, because humans are terrible at estimating. Let’s not just try harder. Let’s find a better way.”

— Anonymous

What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of…

— Denis Diderot

people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly…

— John Hancock

...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others,…

— James Hillman

No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the…

— Swami Vivekananda

No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state…

— Anonymous

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

— Jane Austen

Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is ... to…

— David Frum