Top 31 Surmise Quotes
#1. No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.
Michel De Montaigne
#2. Mrs. Heathcliff is my daughter-in-law,' said Heathcliff, corroborating my surmise. He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction: a look of hatred;
Emily Bronte
#3. It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.
Arthur C. Clarke
#4. Then felt I like like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Like stout Cortes when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific-and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise
Silent upon a peak in Darien
John Keats
#5. Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.
Alice B. Toklas
#6. What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade
Alfie Kohn
#7. Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
Omar Khayyam
#8. I would surmise that we must cherish the resources that God has given us to achieve a goal more than we cherish the goal itself. For if we fall victim to the pursuit of the goal alone, then the goal has suddenly become our god.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#9. We are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#10. Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.
Patricia Briggs
#11. Facts that have been forges into history first appear as incoherent text scribbled on aged paper. Only as we examine the whole of that which we know, can we surmise the elements of that which we do not.
Ron Mayes
#12. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man
That function is smothered in surmise,
And nothing is but what is not.
William Shakespeare
#13. Those who say 'I am ready to learn', or 'I am not ready to learn' are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise.
Idries Shah
#14. The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
Jonathan Swift
#15. I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me.
Ingmar Bergman
#16. If you love her, then love the woman you see, not the woman you suppose, presume, assume, and surmise that she might have been.
Ilya Atani
#17. I would guess, I would surmise that some of the more spectacular bombings are done by al Qaeda suiciders.
George W. Bush
#18. For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.
John Milton
#19. Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
John Dewey
#20. You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.
Ellen Willis
#21. But I still don't have knowledge, interpreting the surprises that others don't know about, that will drive a new narrative. You have to work and think and stress and fret to surmise the surprises by first fathoming the pulse.
George Gilder
#22. So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray.
Oscar Wilde
#23. The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.
Robert Browning
#24. To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!
Herman Gorter
#25. I see that mankind still survives after all its attempts to destroy itself and so I surmise that it is the law of love that rules mankind.
David Richo
#26. These things fill Melanie's mind with wild surmise. She says nothing, drinks it all in. "Transfer
M.R. Carey
#27. From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
Honore De Balzac
#28. I surmise that later generations will likely scoff at the means by which we are currently addressing pain as well.
Melissa Cady
#29. Let the red dawn surmise What we shall do, When this blue starlight dies And all is through.
(The Yellow Sign)
Robert W. Chambers
#31. Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
