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Estimating is what you do when you don't know. -- Sherman Kent
If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance. -- Howard Gardner
When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval. -- Criss Jami
Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections. -- Voltaire
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists. -- Thomas J. Sargent
Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition. -- Jane Austen
In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape. -- Norm MacDonald
You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it. -- Charles Babbage
If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare. -- William Wilberforce
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect. -- John Muir
The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and of shrewdly calculating difficulties, dangers and distances, constitutes the test of a great general. -- Sun Tzu
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The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . . -- Antoine Lavoisier
[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp! -- Harriet Martineau
It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery. -- Lord Dunsany
No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man. -- C. S. Lewis
Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought. -- Manly Hall
Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger in over-estimating this, and representing a partial statement of truth as the whole truth. Geology, like many human beings, suffered from convulsions in its infancy; now, in its later years, I apprehend an attack of pressure on the brain. -- Thomas George Bonney
The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals. -- Frederick Banting
She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens. -- Thornton Wilder

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