Top 19 Quotes About Underestimating Someone's Intelligence
#2. There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
H.L. Mencken
#3. 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.
Charles Dance
#4. After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
{Said in a letter to Voltaire}
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#5. Structs are value types and classes are reference types.
B.J. Miller
#6. I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
William Petersen
#7. I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.
R.C. Sproul
#8. Teenage girls know more than we're given credit for. We sense danger even when everyone's telling us it's fine, he's a perfectly nice man, an upstanding member of our community, have you tasted his sugar-cream pie?
Nova Ren Suma
#9. Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.
Rodger Kamenetz
#10. The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Jessamyn West
#11. Overestimating the intelligence of the enemy is, if anything, more dangerous than underestimating it.
Neal Stephenson
#12. A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.
Paulo Coelho
#13. He seems to think that just because his Cobra can slither up to hers, stand taller and more dominant that he can bring her down. Well, her Cobra may be smaller, but she's just as vicious ... and far more cunning.
Donna Lynn Hope
#14. Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.
Joe Shuster
#15. 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.
John Lloyd
#17. 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.
H.L. Mencken
#18. Loneliness is imposed by society, it kills you and solitude
is self inflicted. I enjoy my solitude
Dixy Gandhi
#19. there's a lot of intelligence out there being wasted by underestimating students' potential to develop.
Carol S. Dweck