Quotes About Misjudgment

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.

Lan shook his head slightly. "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

Why did people always think you did not know as much as they? The world was full of fools!

I'm one of those people who never knows what to say, so I say nothing. Then people think I am a snob. Or if I do say something, half the time I blurt out the wrong thing and embarrass myself.

I felt a stack of shelves, and these were filled with plastic bottles and maybe buckets, and one object that felt like the worst thing in the world but which turned out later to be a sandwich.

At the root of all human tragedy is human folly.

there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.

I feel like you hate your life more than you could ever love me. And I was stupid to think otherwise. I guess it's true what they say—love makes you stupid. Even a girl like me.

I misjudged you," Harvey said. "You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.

I think 'Friends' is brilliant and it was massively underrated in this country for a very British reason, which is the assumption that because the cast is beautiful, it must be vacuous. Whereas in fact, it's brilliantly, brilliantly written.

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

That's one of my pet peeves, that big guys apparently don't have an I.Q. above 50 in the eyes of audiences and producers.

Churchill's career was littered with oratorical disasters when he misjudged the audience.

I think a lot of times my comments get misconstrued as disrespectful and it's not.

Assuming audiences to be dumb, that's a big fallacy.

Almost every person that I had a preconception of, I was wrong. With Edward Teller, I was right. He was an autocrat and a technocrat, with no feeling for humanity.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

What a precious triple donkey I had made of myself!

Is it our calling to understand each other, or are we not, rather, called upon to misjudge one another, to prevent there being a surfeit of happiness and to ensure that happiness continues to be valued, and that these circumstances result in novels, which could not possibly exist if we all knew each other for what we are

Carnegie had seriously misjudged developments in the ore business.

Emma. He smiled in the darkness, thinking what a fool he'd made of himself. Because of Chloe, he'd assumed he was in a whorehouse, and he'd taken Emma for a fresh young flower in the madam's bouquet. Instead she was a librarian, and there was every likelihood that no man had ever laid a hand on her. Steven

If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.

Perception can sometimes lead to perversion" Beware