Ta-Nehisi Coates

When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.

American Journalist

William Godwin

Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual than for a man to impute his actions to honorable motives when it is nearly demonstrable that they flowed from some corrupt and contemptible force.

English Writer

Richard Wagner

How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!

German Composer

Jim Garrison

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.

American Public Servant

Jonathan Swift

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Irish Writer

Impute often implies blame or negative association toward a person or group.

Negative Connotation

Impute suggests an opinion without needing proved evidence, sometimes unfairly.

Suggesting Without Proof

To impute something means it's not explicitly stated but hinted or insinuated.

Not Directly Stated

In finance, impute involves estimating financial value for something indirectly.

Value Estimation

Impute can mean putting a number on something abstract, like a service's value.

Abstract Quantification

Impute helps account for hidden costs in business, like wear and tear on machinery.

Invisible Costs

 when you've realized there's a literacy issue. And the good thing about respect is that it's contagious. People see you being respectful to other folks and they impute that respect to themselves. You see, that's what the transgender prostitute was telling me. I'm judging you just as much as you think you may be judging me.