Guessing Quotes - Page 2

We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

I always second-guess what I am doing.

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.

The yen is trading where it's trading because people are guessing about people's future interest rates, dollar and yen and about the future growth potential of the economies. And, if this policy works, then the yen will probably strengthen.

The producers like to keep people guessing and keep them on the edge of their seats.

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!

Are you going to deliver whatever threat Avari sent you with, or are we going to have to start guessing?" Tod said. "I gotta warn you, I'm insanely good at charades.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

Well! I feel happy these days. I've started taking a herbal anti-depressant. It's called Saint John's Wort. Apparently it's the best-selling anti-depressant in many places. It's the most popular anti-depressant in Germany... After, I'm guessing, amnesia.

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that. Always keeping [the other prisoners] as murderers, thieves, that sort of thing, which has a certain irony to it, I guess. It's a curious thing.

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.