Self Estimate Quotes

#1. 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 subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

George Eliot

#2. One scholar used sales figures from the French company Hennessy to estimate that Kim's annual cognac budget before the sanctions could have been as high as $800,000 a year.

Anonymous

#3. When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked soldiers in the front rank, the result must be rout.

Sun Tzu

#4. Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

Margaret Truman Daniel

#5. no mathematical formula or econometric estimate can tell us exactly what tax rate ought to be applied to what level of income. Only collective deliberation and democratic experimentation can do that.

Thomas Piketty

#6. The North Pole, but to someone looking from the equator, it appears to lie just at the horizon. From the difference in the apparent position of the North Star in Egypt and Greece, Aristotle even quoted an estimate that the distance

Stephen Hawking

#7. A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

Marcel Proust

#8. 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

#9. As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value.

Samuel Johnson

#10. The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

Blaise Pascal

#11. To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#12. The measure of a man's estimate of your strength," he finally told them, "is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

Isabel Wilkerson

#13. For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth.

William S. Burroughs

#14. Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good.

Alexander Hamilton

#15. The human mind tends to estimate the probability of an event from the ease with which it can recall examples, and scenes of carnage are more likely to be beamed into our homes and burned into our memories than footage of people dying of old age.

Steven Pinker

#16. We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,
his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,
fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Many Christians estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt. All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence with them.

Hudson Taylor

#18. Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.

Kurt Hahn

#19. 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 getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

Gail Collins

#20. It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

Mark Twain

#21. I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

Derek Bok

#22. Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren't sick, they're self-dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight face.

Steven Pressfield

#23. True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Tryon Edwards

#24. The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

Friedrich Schiller

#25. Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Charles Spurgeon

#26. I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

Stephen Hawking

#27. Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation ...

William Rothenstein

#28. There is no value-judgment more important to a man
no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation
than the estimate he passes on himself.

Nathaniel Branden

#29. Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.

Steven Levitan

#30. No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.

Mary Somerville

#31. There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

Charles Dudley Warner

#32. The large and rising offshore wealth translates to substantial losses in fiscal revenue. By my estimate, the fraud perpetuated through unreported foreign accounts each year costs about $200 billion to governments throughout the world (see fig.

Gabriel Zucman

#33. So far, the results confirm the folklore: Programmers seem to be a bit more productive after they've done the estimate themselves, compared to cases in which the manager did it without even consulting them. When the two did the estimating together, the results tended to fall in between.

Tom DeMarco

#34. People automatically estimate a mom's IQ at around her children's ages, maybe dividing by the number of kids, rounding up to the nearest pajama size.

Barbara Kingsolver

#35. Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Samuel Johnson

#36. I am less blindly confident than I once was, for I have been learning a truer estimate of myself, my failings and limitations, in these dark days. I have learnt to hope that if there be a Judgment Day of some kind, God will not see us with our own eyes, nor judge us as we judge ourselves.

Vera Brittain

#37. 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 advertising.

Calvin Coolidge

#38. No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

Samuel Johnson

#39. The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration

Helmut Schmid

#40. The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

Adam Sedgwick

#41. I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special

W. Edwards Deming

#42. If you value the world simply for what you can get out of it, be assured that the world will in turn estimate your value to it by what it can get out of you ... If you pursue truth, people will be true to you.

Arthur Twining Hadley

#43. Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

Ilka Chase

#44. We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

Jan Egeland

#45. I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're waiting to see the Commission estimate.

Luis De Guindos

#46. I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.

Markus Zusak

#47. There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America ... hundreds of people were set up in work camps, and hereditary-forced labor was put in place. That's a very different thing than the personal slavery that existed elsewhere.

Edward Ball

#48. Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?

Bertrand Russell