Quotes About Misjudgment

I started reading the Carlos Baker biography of Dad but couldn't finish it. I had the impression I was reading about a guy who, well, just wouldn't be very nice to be around. I wish Baker could have known Dad because exactly the opposite was true.

I definitely smelled a delicious odor of steak and onions. But it turned out to be only a dirty shirt.

You really are the stupidest smart kid in the world," said Mother.

How could she have missed it? It was her knack, to see what people intended, what they were about to do. Yet she saw no further than his smile the first time they met, saw nothing but his genuine love and sympathy and concern for her. How could her knack have failed her?

You always get everything wrong. It's Goofy. It's not nuts.

Good afternoon... My name is Lucy... I'm going to be your right-fielder... Our special today is a misjudged fly-ball. We also have a nice bobbled ground ball and an exellent late throw to the infield... I'll be back in a moment to take your order.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing--and then marry him.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Let me just say it: Bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.

Laura's problem was that she kept casting men in roles they weren't suited for. Like lovely Josh, casting him in the role of decent, kind house-husband, the perfect partner, the modern male, when - what was it that she'd actually loved about him, really? Laura tried to think, and couldn't come up with an answer. He was a great man - kind, funny, clever, hard working - but there was no way he was the man for her, she realised now. Why hadn't she seen it?

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

There are many expressions to describe someone who is going about something in the wrong way. "Making a mistake" is one way to describe this situation. "Screwing up" is another, although it is a bit rude, and "Attempting to rescue Lemony Snicket by writing letters to a congressman, instead of digging an escape tunnel" is a third way, although it is a bit too specific.

Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness.

A lot of nasty and untrue things have been said about me.

As a consequence of its cultural myopia, the CIA misread the world.

Non c'è niente di più pericoloso [...] che sottovalutare il proprio avversario, ignorare la sua logica e, tanto per negargli ogni singola ragione, definirlo un «pazzo».

And, as Stevie Rae would have said, Kalona was as wrong as manboobs.

I felt as if I had stepped on the place where the last stair ought to have been, but wasn't.

The danger of fighting an enemy you demonize is that you will always underestimate them.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

Ow! My eye! I didn't know where my hand was going. I thought it wanted to rest behind my head but it wanted to poke me in the eye!

what is the opposite of a mistake? And I realised there wasn't a word, in fact, precisely because a mistake always arises from best intentions that go awry. You can't set out to make a mistake. Mistakes happen – there's nothing we can do about them.

If there's ever a question about anything, you can always count on me to get it wrong.