48 Guesswork Quotes

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Famous Guesswork Quotes

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. — Rudyard Kipling

I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty. — Arthur Conan Doyle

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. - Isaac Newton

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. — Isaac Newton

It’s always being guessed. It’s our best understanding at any given time. — Naval Ravikant

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one. — William Goldman

It’s harder to guess how life might improve. — Naval Ravikant

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. — Niels Bohr

Take comfort: no one actually knows what the hell they're doing. Everyone is just working off their current best guess. — Mark Manson

I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way. — Ron Atkinson

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. — Scott Adams

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'. — Duke of Wellington

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. — George Bernard Shaw

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. - Yogi Berra

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. — Yogi Berra

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps. — James Geary

A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright. — Lucille Ball

Short Guesswork Quotes

  • Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork. — Sam Ewing
  • The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini. — Evan Esar
  • We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork. — Terry Pratchett
  • C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance. — Erik Naggum

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More Guesswork Quotes

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork. — Walter Lang

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos

My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself. — Yusef Komunyakaa

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork. — J. K. Rowling

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized. — George Orwell

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way — Paul Theroux

... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork. — Henrik Svensmark

The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork. — Edward Albee

For most of the rise of modern medicine, the brain was a really unknown zone and was all based in guesswork. Well, that's all changing. And the opioid recovery is a very good example of the scale of change we're seeing. — Newt Gingrich

A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks. — Gian-Carlo Rota

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war. — Carl von Clausewitz

The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork. — Usama Fayyad

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up. — Margaret Culkin Banning

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom. — Joseph Warren

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read. — Norman Cousins

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork. — Terry McMillan

If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork. — Richard Harris

As for geoengineering, there have been serious general critiques that I think cannot be ignored, like Clive Hamilton's, along with many positive assessments. It is not a matter for subjective judgment based on guesswork and intuition. Rather, these are matters that have to be considered seriously, relying on the best scientific understanding available, without abandoning sensible precautionary principles. — Noam Chomsky

It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works on this show." It takes some of the guesswork out of it. — Amy Sherman-Palladino

A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it. — John Spiers

A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork. — Joan Wickersham

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork. — Bill James

But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him) — Sarah Dessen

But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork." "You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha. "I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about. — Terry Pratchett

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