Underestimate Quotes

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. (George Carlin)
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor. View quote
Cory Doctorow
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. View quote
Douglas Adams
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. View quote
Scott Adams
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering. View quote
A. A. Milne
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. View quote
Bill Gates
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. View quote
T. Harv Eker
You can't underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children. (Isla Fisher)
never underestimate your dumbness!! View quote
Jim Benton
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters. View quote
Daniel Yergin
My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer. View quote
Taylor Hackford
To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily. View quote
Warren Beatty
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs. View quote
George Soros
It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you. View quote
Robert Jordan
How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind, for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought. View quote
Peter Medawar
I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate. View quote
Kathleen Turner
I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me. (Erykah Badu)
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind. View quote
Alice Munro
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. View quote
Timothy Geithner
We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious and forthright will their opposition become. View quote
Tommy Douglas