Guessing Quotes

“Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.”
― Antonio Machado

“True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.”
― Michael Crichton

“A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.”
― Michael Crichton

“He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Everything unsaid can be guessed
Truth may not always be confessed”
― Munia Khan

“Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion - it is still guessing.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“We may convince ourselves that something is true, but that doesn’t make it true.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Empowering Women 101: If a normal man wants you he will let you know. You won't have to guess. He will move mountains to bring you into his life. If he is abnormal he will string you along, drop a trail of crumbs and clues for you to follow, in order to keep you guessing. This type of man desires you, but doesn't value you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.”
― Agatha Christie

“Reasoning built on made-up stuff isn’t rational.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Cinnabar- orange blossom, clove, lily, a touch of patchouli." She ticked the ingredients off. "That woman picked her perfume in college in 1978, and she's worn it ever since." She looked over at me and smiled. "She thinks it defines her. She's right. And that one." She nodded toward a woman standing by the leather boots in the shoe department. "Roses and gin, one of those boutique perfumes. She likes the joke of it, but she's more traditional than she'll ever admit. I bet she has plenty of fantasies she never acts on."
It was like the game I used to play, back when I read the bedsheets in the cottages at the cove, tried to figure out who the guests were, what they wanted.
As we started up the escalator, a woman in her midsixties passed us going down, trailing a wake of fresh oranges behind her.
"Did you know," Victoria said over her shoulder, "that if you put men in a room with just the faintest smell of grapefruit, they tend to think the women around them are six or seven years younger than they actually are?”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“What's the difference between rain and grain? Only a g, though they both grow in the land, and they don't land but fall. What a difference a g makes!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes

“A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“We spent a few hours struggling to come up with better explanations, but each suggestion was shot down almost as soon as it was made. The suggestions became wilder, eventually to the point of silliness.”
― Donald G. Firesmith, What Lurks Below

“All reasoning is based on either divine revelation or made-up stuff.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Can we self-generate knowledge by simply assuming things to be true? Where do assumptions come from?”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“As I took off the rumpled sheets, the smell of the people who had slept in them would lift up into the air. There was the round, almost sweet sweat smell of a child who had spent a day happily exploring, or the sharper-edged odor of one who'd gone to bed unhappy. With the bigger beds, I came to understand the way the scents of two people could mingle as effortlessly as rainwater, and to recognize the times they stayed apart, the smells resolutely separate. Sometimes there were those unreal perfumes, jumbling and talking too loudly- but underneath them I could always find the person. Sadness, like the dark purple juice of a blackberry. Fear, like the metallic taste of an oncoming storm. Love, which smelled like nothing so much as fresh bread. In an odd way, the game wasn't that different from reading the smells of our island. Scents were always about what was growing and what was dying. What would last through the next season. This was just with people instead of trees or flowers or dirt.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“Instead of trying to guess your future, try to create your future because future has something to do with designing not with guessing!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Quite often our most intricate plans are nothing more than our ‘best guess’ dressed up in some intellectual finery so that we look like we know what we’re talking about. And if that’s where we’re at, it’s my guess that we should seek out the God who doesn’t.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“She said, “I was just guessing.”

He said, “No, you weren’t. Whatever it was, it wasn’t just guessing.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves

“God doesn’t base His statements on assumptions. He bases His statements on the truth.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Sound reasoning must be built on truth.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.”
― Gene Kranz

“Guessing what is possible or what is not is a fool's game, the possibility is as infinite as your imagination.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“When you design a product or service, you can guess or you can user research.”
― Mario Maruffi, 2021, LinkedIn