Estimation Quote by Honore de Balzac Download Open image “Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.” — Honore de Balzac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Estimation Men Raised
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities, for we always suppose that more exists when we… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal… — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important… — Claude Bernard Copy Share
The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the most ferocious and savage, the most wakeful and clear-sighted, the most restless, the swiftest, the most jealous, the most ardent and violent, the simplest and most elegant, the most unreasonable, the most watchful chimera of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world;… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation. — Stanley Smith Stevens Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've… — Corey Feldman Copy Share
Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of woman is improved. It is not possible for a bird… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of. — George Washington Copy Share Image
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
