Quotes About Misjudgment

Sometimes people who seem quiet and fragile turn out to be the most inspiring and strongest of all. Don't underestimate them.

All heroes are fools, he liked to say. What he meant was, all heroes but me. So who could correct him when he erred? He had stood on the beach looking at Telegonus and believing him a pirate. He had stood in his hall and accused Telemachus of conspiracy. Two children he had had, and he had not seen either clearly. But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.

We are sorry, we are sorry. Sorry that you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak. But you were wrong.

Is there anything more harsh in this life than to be misjudged, and have one's motives entirely misunderstood?

Je ne suis pas sûr que mon collègue ait eu raison de lui faire un bras d'honneur alors que le ferry s'éloignait du quai.

Dire que j'ai gâché des années de ma vie, que j'ai voulu mourir, que j'ai eu mon plus grand amour, pour une femme qui ne me plaisait pas, qui n'était pas mon genre!

It was clear that he didn't think Joshua was any great prize. But the same could be said of him; Al Bowen was one of those guys who looked like he had spent far too much of his life being a roadie for the Grateful Dead.

The reason why most people fail in life is because they mistake comments for advice and advice for comments.

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.

We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.

They misunderestimated me.

You think I'm weak, but I think you're wrong

Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit.

Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the guy who catches those people.

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

Many, if not most, therapeutic errors are assessment errors; that is, they are therapeutic responses based on faulty understanding and assessment of the problem at hand.

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

Its not that they want her. It's just they have this feeling, and they're off, Billy, they're way off, but they have this sense that, somehow behind that knockout face of hers, she's more like the women they see on the job, on patrol, on a case, in the precint house. Women with stories as long as their rap sheets, as their dangling legs…

I also believed that the Snowden affair marked the end of one of the most confrontational periods in U.S.-Russian history. I thought then that we had hit the bottom and therefore there was nowhere to go but up, though it would take years to climb out of the hole we were in. I was wrong. Things could, and did, get worse.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.