Estimate

Famous quotes containing the word estimate:

    Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it?
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 14:28.