Top 18 Misunderstands Quotes
#1. I don't know why I am in such a reminiscent mood except that spring and the reappearance of toads always awakens the old acquisitive instinct. The only thing that keeps me from starting a collection is the fact that no rule exists against it.
Jean Webster
#2. The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.
Leon Wieseltier
#3. I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
Vernor Vinge
#4. If it's a choice between a difficult truth and a simple lie, people will take the lie every time. Even if it kills them.
Paul Murray
#5. Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?
Elbert Hubbard
#6. A system that sets people against each other fundamentally misunderstands the dynamics that drive achievement. Education thrives on partnership and collaboration - within schools, between schools, and with other groups and organizations.
Ken Robinson
#7. Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
Madeleine L'Engle
#8. A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.
Bobby Jones
#9. It is not that the intellect sometimes misunderstands. Rather, the intellect always misunderstands. It is not that the intellect sometimes errs, it is that the intellect is the error.
Rajneesh
#10. I think more to the point, these pivotal times means something other than a politician. I understand the economy. I understand the world. I have a lot of foreign policy experience. I understand bureaucracies. I understand technology, and I understand leadership.
Carly Fiorina
#11. Doesn't this place give you the creeps? You could perhaps do something with some floral wallpaper and a fire-bomb.
Terry Pratchett
#12. One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#13. Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.
John Howard
#14. Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints
Ludwig Von Mises
#15. Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.
Aleister Crowley
#16. I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
Romola Garai
#17. Who will tend the farm museums who will dust the day belongings?
Michael Stipe
#18. I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens, this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives.
Stephen King
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