Guessing

Famous quotes containing the word guessing:

“We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truth ... unless we can trust to the human mind’s having such a power of guessing right that before very many hypotheses shall have been tried, intelligent guessing may be expected to lead us to one which will support all tests, leaving the vast majority of possible hypotheses unexamined.”
—Charles S. Pierce (1839–1914)

“A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)