Top 67 Underestimating Quotes & Sayings

I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.

Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.

You can never make the mistake of underestimating an opponent, especially in the Champions League.

It's good that people are underestimating me. I'm the guy from Down Under, and I'm going to show them what's up.

When people make the mistake of underestimating me, that's when they are really in for their biggest surprise.

There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton.

Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

Groups tend to believe their work is harder, more strategic, or just more valuable while underestimating those contributions from other groups.

As H.L. Mencken once said, 'nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.' Our show [All in the Family] countered that witticism. I think he was wrong.

There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

I'd never bought the idea that you don't lose money by underestimating the intelligence of the audience. Although perhaps I should add that I've never really made that much money.

Underestimating grades has serious consequences for a student's choice of university, and their future.

No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.

People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the public's taste" and I think that's very wrongheaded. I like to believe the audience is actually intelligent, because it's made up of other people like yourself.

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

The conclusion you first draw about someone is often informed merely by what you're bringing to it, and it will lead you to underestimating the full depth of the people you have so judged.

I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people are used to it now. So, they're so used to having their intelligence underestimated that, for most of them, it really isn't worth the bother of paying a little more attention to something that might hit them on a deeper level. But you can't really read people's minds.

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an inch it is better to retreat a yard." This is called going forward without advancing, pushing back without using weapons. There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy. Underestimating your enemy means thinking that he is evil. Thus you destroy your three treasures and become an enemy yourself. When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.

I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Anthony Joshua, I'm pretty sure he's underestimating me, man.

Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.

There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction.

De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

If you look at the history of Manchester United, they are always a big side, so there is no time of underestimating them.

That's a very hard thing to help the establishment know. We're still an establishment that thinks the average mentality is something like 13 years of age, that never forgot H.L. Mencken's notion that nobody lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American people. That's the horseshit the establishment has always lived with.

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

The good thing about people underestimating models is that the bar is set so low, you tend to impress people more easily.

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

H. L. Mencken once said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. That is not true. I have come to believe that it pays to make all your layouts project a feeling of good taste, provided that you do it unobtrusively. An ugly layout suggests an ugly product. There are very few products which do not benefit from being given a first class ticket through life.

Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever.

There's a big advantage in people underestimating you.

[People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.

I am used to people underestimating me.

On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.

We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

That's something I've struggled with my entire life - people underestimating me.

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.

I've made several careers out of people underestimating me - it's almost an advantage worth cultivating.

I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.

We need to look to our laurels a bit with television in this country. I don't think enough risks are being taken in drama television in the U.K., and I think a lot of programme makers are underestimating the intelligence of the viewing public, basing it all on ratings.

No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

I am done underestimating [Donald] Trump and his appeal.

Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If you have no boundaries then where is your success?

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.