Estimate Quotes

213 Estimate quotes by 179 unique authors

The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb… — William Shakespeare
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy… — George William Curtis
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get… — Leonard Cohen
For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium. — Walter J. Phillips
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind… — Antony Hewish
Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do… — Leo Burnett
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent. — Norman Vincent Peale
Who can estimate the wealth of worth caged in a little child? — Evangeline Booth
I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had… — Gail Collins
I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of… — Daniel Kahneman
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers.… — A J Liebling
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified,… — Orison Swett Marden
Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more… — Theresa May
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? — Tillie Olsen
I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices. — Rachael Ray
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. — Charles Spurgeon
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high… — Henry David Thoreau
In consequence of our limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, we place a low estimate upon the great work of the atonement. The glorious… — Ellen G. White
He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting… — Elliot Perlman
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you… — Marcus Aurelius
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and… — Thomas Hardy

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