Quotes About Misjudgment

for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.

When stupid wins, everyone loses.

You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!

I had too many worries and, whatever I did, the feeling of always being in the wrong.

People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal.

When I was a boy, I was really thin, small, long-haired. I always looked young. People thought, 'He can't play football.' I used that to my advantage.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick?

They thought he was only what they could see. A nice boy but a bit of a goof, a bit of a show-off. Not the brightest star in the universe; not a numbers person, but you couldn't have everything you wanted and at least he wasn't a total washout.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

I misjudged her, wasn't mature enough to understand how difficult it was for her.

I can't believe you cheated! (Phobos) I can't believe you didn't know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh? (Deimos)

Because the conversation in heaven is never revealed to Job or his friends, they understandably misjudge precisely what is at stake. This hidden information is especially poignant because, as Job argues his case before God, he believes that he can "win" if he can force God into court to account for himself, to give an explanation for his actions. In reality, Job has nothing to win because he is not on trial.

It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.

I just have that sort of face and when I got to Hollywood in the late '70s they took one look at me and said, 'Get him a gun. You definitely should be carrying a gun,' and so a lot of it is just the way I look. I look like I'm angry and dangerous, and in fact, I'm loveable and kind.

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.

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

and Liam was a dead loss from day one, thinking he'd be

Perhaps the German leadership's greatest mistake in the Ardennes offensive was to have misjudged the soldiers of an army they had affected to despise.

Hal remained a low-grade moron.