Guesswork Quotes

It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong.

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

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

I don't like to guess. Just react. Some guys are guess hitters. I just could never do it. If you guess and guess wrong, you have no shot of hitting anything else.

Nobody really knows everything, and they can only assume.

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

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

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.

When we routinely fail to produce the new knowledge policy makers desperately need, they lose confidence in us. Who can blame them? Smart guesses aren’t worth spit.

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.

The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.

I don't think about the gender of my readers or about reader expectations. I'm frankly scared to. I figured out a long time ago that if I tried to guess the audience, it would be like me trying to guess which stocks to buy.

Politics, you will observe, is the science of guessing right.

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.

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.

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

The experts, for all their superior knowledge, rarely do better than chance in predicting future events.

First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If it disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn't matter how beautiful your guess is or how smart you are or what your name is. If it disagrees with experience, it's wrong. That's all there is to it.