Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.

Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted…

— William Shakespeare

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults…

— Benjamin Franklin

If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.

— William Shakespeare

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Let us not make random conjectures about the greatest matters.”

— Heraclitus

“But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of…

— C.S. Lewis

“I don't answer questions about conjectures.”

— Robert Graves

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

— Isaac Newton

“The Presidency alone unites the conjectures of the public.”

— James Madison

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say:…

— Leo Tolstoy

“What we have, in fact, is not a theory at all but a large collection of approximate calculations, together with a web of conjectures…

— Lee Smolin

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard…

— Thomas Reid

You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

— Thomas Jefferson

Love is strong as the Death; jealousies are as cruel as the tomb.

— Solomon