Guesses Quotes

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At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not… — Daniel B. Wallace
A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting… — Edwin Powell Hubble
When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they… — David Strathairn
I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived. — Reza Aslan
I got plenty of guesses wrong on things in the past as well. I don't want to pretend I have some great insight... But when… — James Packer
I would have all the professors in colleges, all the teachers in schools of every kind, including those in Sunday schools, agree that they would… — Robert Green Ingersoll
When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?'… — Diana Lopez
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. — Ambrose Bierce
Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger. — Luci Shaw
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively. — Laurence J. Peter
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. — George Bernard Shaw
But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't… — Bill Bryson
Hello, Halberstam," Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen," I say, admiring the way he's styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even… — Bret Easton Ellis
Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick,… — Amy Lowell
I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed. — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
I guess since the groin is the center of a guy's world, he rarely guesses it isn't the center of yours. — Lilith Saintcrow
Whatcha doin', Freak Girl?" --------------------------- "What does it look like, brainiac?" I shot back, even surprising myself with the force of my jab. "I'll give… — Mari Mancusi
It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake. — C.S. Lewis
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires… — Baltasar Gracian

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