Estimate

Famous quotes containing the word estimate:

    Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. ‘Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Value dwells not in particular will;
    It holds his estimate and dignity
    As well wherein ‘tis precious of itself
    As in the prizer.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    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)