guesses quotes

  • Men of business have a solid judgment, a wonderful guessing power of what isgoing to happen, each in his own trade, but they have never practised themselves in reasoning out their judgments and in supporting their guesses byargument; probably if they did so, some of the finer and correcter parts of their anticipations would vanish.

    -Walter Bagehot
      'Postulates of English Political Economy', in Economic Studies (1880).

  • These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action. The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
    Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.

  • There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Sir George Crofts. MrsWarren's Profession, act 3.

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