Overestimated Quotes

25 quotes by 22 authors

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have… — H. L. Mencken
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love,… — Camille Paglia
To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that last a lifetime:… — Rod Paige
The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated. — Italo Calvino
So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had… — Robert Breault
Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a… — Hubert H. Humphrey
The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him. — Allan Bloom
I feel overestimated. — Tom Stoppard
The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to… — Alan Bennett
A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated. — Eliot Engel
The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be… — Charles Darwin
To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things. — Robert Henri
The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I… — Tim Ferriss
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. — H. L. Mencken
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. — Oscar Wilde
A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run. — Francis Collins
I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated… — Kurt Vonnegut
...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs… — Jorge Amado
They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take. — Blaize Clement
Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity… — Jack London

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