Quotes About Misjudgment

No siempre los imbéciles salimos tan imbéciles como el imbécil que nos menosprecia.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.

I never saw it coming," I said bleakly. "I thought I was so smart. And each time I talked to her, I dismissed her as some dumb, scattered girl. Meanwhile, she was laughing and countering my moves every step of the way. It's humbling. I don't meet many people like that.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." "There's

Those men think I'm purely decorative, and they're fools for not knowing better.

Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage, unaware that they were incapable of stopping it? Such was the high opinion it had of its talents.

If my colleague's reaction is typical, imagine how often women who think they are displaying a positive quality—connection— are misjudged by men who perceive them as revealing a lack of independence, which the men regard as synonymous with incompetence and insecurity.

Ghastly Bespoke's opinions were not always right. It was his opinion, for example, that he could stand with his back to you and you wouldn't stick a knife in it. How wrong he was.

It figured--the almost invincible girl gets hurt, and they call a vet.

Zodra hij me zijn kant op zag komen, excuseerde hij zich bij de groep met wie hij stond te praten en verdween hij het jongenstoilet in. Waarschijnlijk dacht hij dat hij me daarmee had afgeschud. Blijkbaar kende hij me niet heel goed.

On almost all of which counts he was in error, but since no one was ever likely to tell him so, there was no harm done.

N'était-ce pas stupide de croire à l'intelligence du public ?

He little imagined how

I get the gold-digger part six times weekly. I can play those women into the ground, but I don't want someone telling me that's all I can do.

My predictions are notably inaccurate.

The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.

I just get this reputation of being a bad teammate, but no one would come in and tell me why.

People, she believed, were for the large part leaping dumbasses.