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Let us never underestimate the motivational force that the belief in Scripture’s divine proximity has upon exegetes. They open the book having already invested their faith in the proposition that it is underwritten by God.
— p. 67 (The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (2005))
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.
tommy douglas— Address, Provincial Convention, July 16, 1952
Never underestimate the power of a good story.
john kotter— Step 3, p. 80
Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.
john kotter— Step 5, p. 112
Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.
jerry pournelle— Reply to reader email in Chaos Manor Mail 141, February 19-25, 2001
Our task in conjunction with the Merchant Navies of the United Nations, and supported by the Allied Air Forces, is to carry the Allied Expeditionary Force to the Continent, to establish it there in a secure bridgehead and to build it up and maintain it at a rate which will outmatch that of the enemy. Let no one underestimate the magnitude of this task.
— Special Order of the Day, 31 May 1944 by Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay KCB, KBE, MVO, Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, Operation Neptune
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
andrew s. tanenbaum— Computer Networks, 4th ed., p. 91
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.
— Leo Buscaglia, quoted in Words from the Wise : Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said (2007) by Rosemarie Jarski
Never underestimate the power of a million amateurs with keys to the factory.
chris anderson— Ch. 5, p. 58
We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.
eliezer yudkowsky— Beware of Other-Optimizing (April 2009)
Don't underestimate the Force.
— Darth Vader
You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
Jack Black— American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and singer
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life .
— Sigmund Freud, in Sigmund Says: And Other Psychotherapists' Quotes (1 Jun 2006), p.80
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
— Douglas Adams in Mostly Harmless (1992).
"I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality. . . I expect it to provide all further enlightenment."
— Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess (25 March 1898)
I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality ... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.
— Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess (25 March 1898)
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
oliver stone— History and the Movies: Conversation with Oliver Stone by Harry Kreisler (April 17 and June 27, 1997)
There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned.
john f. kennedy— President Kennedy's 13th News Conferences on June 28, 1961 John Source: F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
