Estimate Quotes

213 Estimate quotes by 179 unique authors

It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them. — Havilah Babcock
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to… — Walter Lippmann
As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value. — Samuel Johnson
No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius. — Samuel Johnson
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best. — Samuel Johnson
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. — George William Curtis
We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect… — Jamie Oliver
If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken. — Johann Lamont
Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox. — Steven Levitan
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. — Augustus William Hare
I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for… — Derek Bok
Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost. — Dave Barry
Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my… — Pablo Picasso
No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest. — Joyce Cary
I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood… — Leon Battista Alberti
We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in… — Jan Egeland
Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human… — Xaviera Hollander
There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated… — John Galt
Most people over estimate others talents and underestimate their own. — Orrin Woodward
I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're… — Luis de Guindos
I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they… — Roone Arledge
If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate… — Thomas a Kempis
Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living. — Doris Janzen Longacre
We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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