Estimate Quotes

213 Estimate quotes by 179 unique authors

I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't… — Markus Zusak
I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. — Markus Zusak
she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which… — Jane Austen
Never under estimate a pretty little liar. — Sara Shepard
The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we… — Vaclav Havel
The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own… — Thomas Merton
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are. — John Calvin
You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at… — Douglas Adams
Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity… — Jack London
It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has,… — Charles Dickens
Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as "the big bang" - approximately 1.3-2 x… — Mark Z. Danielewski
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is… — Elwyn Brooks White
How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate. — Peter F. Hamilton
These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second… — Bertrand Russell
It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is… — Calvin Coolidge
Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal… — Henry Ford II
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are. — Friedrich Schiller
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will… — George Eliot
You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed… — Charles Spurgeon
It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth. — Mark Twain
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. — Mark Twain
But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us. — Tryon Edwards
The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life:… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical… — Nikola Tesla

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