Quotes About Estimation

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

the more pragmatic Haro estimated that Magellan's expedition could yield a profit of 250 percent.

without the Pacific Ocean to inform his calculations, the estimated length of his route came to only half the actual distance.

Fourier believed the world would eventually contain thirty-seven million poets equal to Homer, thirty-seven million mathematicians equal to Newton, and thirty-seven million dramatists equal to Molière—although, he admitted, these were only "approximate estimates.

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

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

Believe me then, my friend, that that is a miserable arithmetic which would estimate friendship at nothing, or at less than nothing.

I'm certain that your estimation of your mother and father was rather hyperbolic anyway. Parents are deified by their children, but as you can see, the idols in the temple have come tumbling down." He extended a foot and touched the woman's corpse.

No one in this world, so far as I know… has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

In terms of relationships, women often completely over-estimate the confidence of men, and forget about needing to feel validated.

the more specific reason that unskilled or incompetent people overestimate their abilities far more than others is because they lack a key skill called "metacognition.

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

You underestimate yourself.

They all began to guess.

I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self it is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

My rule of green thumb for mulch is to double my initial estimate of bags needed, and add three. Then I'll only be two bags short.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)

I know a rancher," says Grace. "When he was in his field with his cows, he counted one hundred and ninety-six. But when he rounded them up, he had two hundred.

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.