Quotes About Misjudgment

I'm always amazed at how adults assume I can't hear. They talk about me as if I'm invisible, figuring I'm too retarded to understand their conversation. I learn quite a bit this way.

From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.

At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name. - Attributed to John H. Doc Holliday

No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

She constantly surprises him, because he does not really know her. He underestimates Catherine

It was like - It was like Special Olympics or something.

Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity

They mistook the smoke for the fire.

fallaciously pessimistic.

People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.

One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history

All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.

Guys want to make a name for themselves, they look at my age and think they will run over me. It's not like that, though. I'm tougher than that.

Men that look upon my outside, perusing only my condition, and fortunes, do err in my altitude; for I am above Atlas his shoulders.

The younger one looked to be completely useless.

They called Matthew March autistic as a child. What no one had known was that he was not closed into a world of his own, he was far, far too open to the real one.

I resent ever being stereotyped.

The ones doing that, counting me out, are going to look silly.

A lot of people were mistaken about a lot of things.

As far as bad ideas went, this stole the prize.

You little fool

She'd braced herself for a hard, plundering, ravaging assault, but the sweetness of his caress was butterfly-soft, and so beguiling that she ached for him to deepen the pressure. Her hands lifted and settled on the incredible warmth of his chest as she parted her lips and tilted her head to grant him easier access. She was as guilty of misjudging Cullen as everyone else was—he looked every inch an outlaw, but he was kissing her like an angel. A fallen, dangerously beautiful angel.

If something came out of the deal, it couldn't make things any worse for us than they already were, I thought. But I couldn't have been more wrong. Hell has no true bottom.

We're all wrong, every one of us.