Catherine the Great
Empress
"In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."
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Conjecture
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Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art."
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"Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible."
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"It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account."
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