Famous quotes containing the words consensus, earnings and/or estimate:
“No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.”
—Josiah Royce (1855–1916)
“The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)
“We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)