Estimation Quotes

Estimation Quote of the day

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God.

Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live.

This book [March], in my estimation, is a road map. It is a change agent. It is saying to people, "This is a way".

The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.

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.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God

Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.

By my estimation, dating was 1 percent confidence and 99 percent troubleshooting.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

Of all the issues we are concerned with at present, the most basic issue, in my estimation, is that of human-earth relations.

A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.

There's no higher honor, in my estimation, than being asked to serve in the White House.

The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.

There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.

There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.

Today it is very popular to do a thing we call channeling. People are trying to channel entities and have these beings come through them. In my estimation this is downright ridiculous and dangerous.

Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen."

It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.