Top 91 Quotes About Guesses
#2. If we accept the premise that we're always wrong, it really removes the incentive to spend a lot of time trying to make good guesses because even the good guesses turn out to be wrong. So, make plausible guesses ... and tell a good story.
James S.A. Corey
#3. Marland sighed. Her guesses were pretty good, but that was the bulk of her career in a nutshell.
Luke Taylor
#4. Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
William Jennings Bryan
#5. These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.
Terence McKenna
#6. organisers of weight-guessing competitions and advisers helping people to refine their guesses.
John Kay
#7. Get a version 1.0 out there as soon as you can. Until you have some users to measure, you're optimizing based on guesses.
Paul Graham
#8. I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.
Patrick Rothfuss
#9. You know who they are?" Tony said softly. "I could maybe give nine guesses. And twelve of them would be right." (I'll be waiting)
Raymond Chandler
#10. All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures - an Eiffel Tower of artificialities rising sky-high from a very flat and very thin foundation of inconsequential facts.
Mark Twain
#11. Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong in some people's eyes when I go set a story on foreign shores.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#12. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
George Bernard Shaw
#13. 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, she cannot see her lover hiding,
But she guesses he is near,
And the sliding of the water
Seems the stroking of a dear
Hand upon her.
Amy Lowell
#14. For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth. History
Sebastian Barry
#15. If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble.
Warren Buffett
#16. A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.
Carl Icahn
#17. Remember: the universe neither judges, nor interprets, nor second guesses your will. If it did, there would be no poverty, no hunger, no suffering.
Stephen Richards
#18. The best of seers is he who guesses well.
Euripides
#19. As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
George Bernard Shaw
#20. Sometimes a stupid man is only a couple of good guesses away from looking clever.
Philip Kerr
#21. Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation and criticism, by the logic of proofs and refutations.
Imre Lakatos
#22. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.' Then
H.G.Wells
#23. Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
William Jennings Bryan
#24. Our most dismaying failure is in the use of our knowledge of what human beings need in the way of bodily and spiritual nourishment. And I suspect that some of the guesses made by our ancestors are partly responsible for the starved bodies and spirits we see everywhere.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#25. Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.
Enoch Powell
#26. Multiple research studies find evidence that we actively search for information that matches our expectations.[1] This occurs not just when we feel passionately about one answer but also when we have made public our initial guesses or thoughts. We've
John Austin
#27. 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
#28. Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
Laurence J. Peter
#29. What are they fighting about?"
Julian could take his guesses. "I would say Grady wants to shoot me. Garrett is telling him no, too much paperwork.
Abigail Roux
#30. I want to 'think' that I have all the answers. But if I 'think', I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I 'think' yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#31. Why don't we just call plans what they really are: guesses.
Jason Fried
#32. Predictions are just good guesses or stories for the gullible.
Wynne Channing
#33. An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#34. For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
Carson McCullers
#35. We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
Karl R. Popper
#36. Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon
as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.
Hortense Calisher
#37. Pillow my head on no guesses when I die.
Joseph Cook
#38. I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#39. The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but those abounding in knowledge and disciplined in intellectual combinations.
John Stuart Mill
#40. The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive.
Patricia Churchland
#41. The women are drinking and laughing inside somewhere, Wallis guesses, as manless as these men are without women.
Sheri Holman
#42. Yes, it leads people to believe that they have more information than our cops, but then, at some point, before you know it, you're both caught up. Everybody, when they're watching the who-dun-it shows, is making guesses in the first five minutes anyway. We just kind of give them what they want.
Kristin Lehman
#43. Everything I was doing was like this chess game - full of second guesses, indecision, waiting.
Heather Demetrios
#44. My first wife said, 'It's either that
guitar or me,' you know
and I give
you three guesses which one went.
Jeff Beck
#45. I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.
Patricia Churchland
#46. I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.
A.A. Milne
#47. These are only hints an guesses ... the rest is prayer, observance, discipline, thought, and action.
T. S. Eliot
#48. A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
Lucille Ball
#49. People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.
Richard Thaler
#50. When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object is a wall, or an imminent cliff, or a car heading towards you. This might be disturbing to a lot of people, but some of those guesses are errors.
Usama Fayyad
#51. By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion , in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what the afterlife would be. All made guesses, and then established these as articles of faith . Though, in a sense, some were near the mark, if you accept their revelations as symbolic .
Philip Jose Farmer
#52. Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.
Luci Shaw
#53. Projections are just bullshit. They're just guesses.
Jason Fried
#54. 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?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.
Diana Lopez
#55. Hooded, and veiled with their night-like tresses, The Fates shall bring what no prophet guesses." And
Lord Dunsany
#56. For leaders, wars are filled with guesses.
John Ferling
#57. What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom
from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#58. OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
Ambrose Bierce
#59. REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
Ambrose Bierce
#61. 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 teach only what they know, that they would not palm off guesses as demonstrated truths.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#62. Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.
William Stanley Jevons
#63. One makes their own luck, good or ill ... and there are no guesses, merely faulty concentration.
Richard A. Knaak
#64. Just as a warm and moist environment is conducive to the spread of deadly bacteria, the worlds of politics and business especially - with their long time frames, complex outcomes, and murky cause and effect - are conducive to the spread of half-cocked guesses posing as fact.
Steven D. Levitt
#65. 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
#66. Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.
H.G.Wells
#67. An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
Anton Chekhov
#68. Can you identify in your own life speculations that became educated guesses and then truth? Have you ever seen your established truths upended, with a resulting revolution in your life?
Kip S. Thorne
#69. We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.
J.I. Packer
#70. Diagnoses, Dave thought, were rough guesses, blunt tools, always more inaccurate than they were helpful.
Heather Sellers
#71. Only an idiot guesses or reasons or deduces,' the Professor said, patiently.
Kim Newman
#72. 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
#73. I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED. I OFTEN SENSE A SPIRIT OR FORCE OR MEANING BEYOND MYSELF. I LEAVE IT OPEN AS TO WHAT THE SPIRIT IS, BUT I CONTINUE TO MAKE GUESSES.
Amy Tan
#74. 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 the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#75. For some it's even , for some it's odd
For some it's fraud , for some it's GOD
Any guesses ?......Yes it's LOVE
Ritesh Sinha
#78. 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 so with the New Testament.
Daniel B. Wallace
#79. That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.
Neal Shusterman
#80. The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.
Jeremy Campbell
#81. In Bulgaria, they use the Cyrillic alphabet, which is completely different from ours. You can't sound the words out, so you can't read street signs or packages in the grocery store! You have to rely on pictures and guesses.
Katherine McNamara
#82. Are we all here standing naked, taking guesses at the actual date and time?
Jason Mraz
#83. A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.
Tommy Lasorda
#84. Research. Government archives. Detective work. Few lucky guesses. Easy.
Douglas Adams
#85. When you turn guesses into plans, you enter a danger zone. Plans let the past drive the future. They put blinders on you. "This is where we're going because, well, that's where we said we were going." And that's the problem: Plans are inconsistent with improvisation.
Jason Fried
#86. Hollywood usually guesses that extraterrestrials would only be interested in one of three things: (1) They want to breed with us, because their own reproductive machinery is on the blink; (2) They want Earth's resources; or (3) They want the Earth. All of it.
Seth Shostak
#87. A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.
Voltaire
#88. Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out of print", and hard-to-find books can be easily available. So far, the only limitation seems to be finding a way for the writer to be paid.
Kate Grenville
#89. 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 think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.
David Strathairn
#90. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard Kipling
#91. It goes on top and breaks down,
It can emit a high or low sound.
Each atom of such noisy chute
Exhale the aroma of a ripe fruit.
Ana Claudia Antunes
