Underestimated Quotes
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The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.
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More Underestimated Quotes
We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.
heinz guderian— Quoted in "Images of Kursk: History's Greatest Tank Battle, July 1943" - Page 7 - by Nikolas Cornish - History - 2002
The Russian colossus...has been underestimated by us...whenever a dozen divisions are destroyed the Russians replace them with another dozen.
franz halder— August 1941, from "The World at War" - Page 129 - by Mark Arnold-Forster - World War, 1939-1945 - 1981
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
william ralph inge— 1948 The End of an Age, ch.6.
Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated – unfairly so, in my opinion.
conrad black— On avarice
An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar.
robert pinsky— Article-Poems Aloud April 2009
Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson’s Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force.
serzh sargsyan— Address of President Serzh Sargsyan to the Conference dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of Woodrow Wilson’s Arbitral Award (November 23, 2010)
[In response to the question "Do you think that you underestimated the insurgency's strength?"] I think so. I guess if I look back on it now, I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered.
— Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize Luncheon, June 19, 2006
"I underestimated you, woman." ... "The cry of men down the ages."
david gemmell— Ch. 15 (The King Beyond the Gate)
But like Marx , Veblen badly underestimated the capacity of a democratic system to correct its own excesses.
robert heilbroner— Chapter VIII, Thorstein Veblen, p. 233
They'll survive. Captain Janeway and I made sure of that. It's you who underestimated us.
— Who: Kathryn Janeway
— Note: Admiral Janeway of the 25th Century was killed by the Borg Queen after ensuring the success of the Captain Janeway in the 24th Century.
