Communication Misunderstanding Quotes

#1. There are those that wonder which is worse: Not being able to reach out or not having anyone to reach for. There are some that ponder which is the greater ache: Not being able to tell or not having anyone that cares enough to ask. Perhaps it's not one person that is to blame, but both.

Donna Lynn Hope

#2. Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

Karl Kraus

#3. Five minutes of communication can save a year's worth of turmoil and misunderstanding.

Joyce Meyer

#4. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us ... and nothing.

Malcolm Bradbury

#6. Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding.

Stephen Colbert

#7. By precluding meaningful communication it fosters misunderstanding on both sides."
(Freedom Rider Diary: Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison, p. 49)

Carol Ruth Silver

#8. Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.

Cherie Carter-Scott

#9. Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.

Bernard Werber

#10. The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society - and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.

William H. Whyte

#11. It's very important to choose our words very carefully because miscommunication leads to misunderstanding, which rarely leads to anything good.

Charles F. Glassman

#12. I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. I think in general it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings, and the Web's a form of communications, so it generally should be good.

Tim Berners-Lee

#14. It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Charles Baudelaire

#15. For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.

Virginia Woolf

#16. The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

M. Scott Peck

#17. Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#18. Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.

Karl Popper