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Second guesses in putting are fatal. -- Bobby Locke
The best of seers is he who guesses well. -- Euripides
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively. -- Laurence J. Peter
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. -- George Bernard Shaw
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert. -- Laurence J. Peter
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
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
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
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
Suppose a bad guy guesses the password for your throwaway Yahoo address. Now he goes to major banking and commerce sites and looks for an account registered to that email address. When he finds one, he clicks the 'forgot my password' button and a new one is sent - to your compromised email account. Now he's in a position to do you serious harm. -- Barton Gellman
Projections are just bullshit. They're just guesses. -- Jason Fried
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes. -- Anton Chekhov
Pillow my head on no guesses when I die. -- Joseph Cook
That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong. -- Neal Shusterman
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. -- Ambrose Bierce
These are only hints an guesses... the rest is prayer, observance, discipline, thought, and action. -- T. S. Eliot
Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together. -- William Jennings Bryan
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Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger. -- Luci Shaw
One makes their own luck, good or ill... and there are no guesses, merely faulty concentration." -- Richard A. Knaak
These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses. -- Terence McKenna
A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright. -- Lucille Ball
Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery. -- William Stanley Jevons
I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem. -- Patricia Churchland
We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan. -- J. I. Packer
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. -- Ambrose Bierce
Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses. -- Ernest Sosa
The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive. -- Patricia Churchland
People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick. -- Richard Thaler
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
My first wife said, 'It's either thatguitar or me,' you know -- and I giveyou three guesses which one went. -- Jeff Beck
A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses. -- Carl Icahn
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
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
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
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
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
How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong. -- Neal Shusterman
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
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
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
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

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