Top 100 Quotes About Misunderstanding
#1. Don't waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you.
Shannon L. Alder
#2. There is no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding
Henry James
#3. No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.
Storm Constantine
#4. All of that has been a brutal lesson to me in not overlooking or misunderstanding what is actually there, in your hands, now. We always think the thing we need to transform everything
the miracle
is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves.
Jeanette Winterson
#5. The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.
H.L. Mencken
#6. The problem is not the misunderstanding we have, but the understanding we have missed. We must come to come to a certain understanding; to understand understanding, we need to understand understanding and we must understand with understanding!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#7. Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.
Philip Yancey
#8. There can only be a need for forgiveness when first there is blame.
And there can only be blame, when first there is misunderstanding.
Mike Dooley
#9. Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.
Paul Valery
#10. [H]e had heard of, but given little credence to, magic. There was always someone talking of folk remedies and charms, but it seemed to him the inclination of fools misunderstanding chance.
Thomm Quackenbush
#11. The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as
drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.
Erich Fromm
#12. There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
Henry David Thoreau
#13. Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.
Rajneesh
#14. Of course cher . A proper southern woman never allows a simple misunderstanding get in the way of hospitality.
Jaye Wells
#15. Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.
Italo Svevo
#16. It's very important to choose our words very carefully because miscommunication leads to misunderstanding, which rarely leads to anything good.
Charles F. Glassman
#17. We expect our spouses to fill voids in our lives or hearts that only God can fill. Unmet expectations reduce a journey expected to be amazing to ordinary. Unmet expectations breed hurt feelings, misunderstanding, and unresolved conflict.
Justin Davis
#18. To study foreign affairs without putting ourselves into others' shoes is to deal in illusion and to prepare students for a lifelong misunderstanding of our place in the world.
Paul Gagnon
#19. If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding.
Arlo Guthrie
#20. Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.
David Mixner
#21. If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.
Peter Welch
#22. We're a group of people whose misunderstanding of each other is only topped by people's misunderstanding of us.
Thea Hillman
#23. Where there is mistrust and misunderstanding there is always a complain to arise.
Auliq Ice
#24. Misunderstanding is one of the worst of ill feelings which can spoil many lives.
Lakshmi Menon
#25. And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.
Anna Quindlen
#26. There is a common misunderstanding that if you are going to be a "good" Buddhist, you will have to leave your career and run off to the woods to meditate 24/7 until you reach enlightenment. I don't think you have to do that in order to follow a spiritual path. I have seen my
Lodro Rinzler
#27. He was forced into war by a misunderstanding - and always claimed he was no warrior - yet he came to fight as well as any man.
Brandon Sanderson
#28. One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.
Sol LeWitt
#29. How easily life can end on a misunderstanding. How fragile we all are, like spider silk on a branch of thorns. I
Stacey Lee
#30. If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.
Elisabeth Elliot
#31. People meant to be together will always take detours through pain, misunderstanding and pride, but some how they always drift back to the one thing that makes them feel alive.
Shannon L. Alder
#32. Misunderstanding me probably means that I am Alien. (As far from here I can tell you sounds pretty interesting Theory... - DeYtH Banger is Alien. I like
it!)
Deyth Banger
#33. Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.
M. R. DeHaan
#34. The easily perceptible linear thread through our lives causes a basic misunderstanding when we tend to give the same weight to years, months, and days. The briefest moments can have an explosive power that overwhelms the time around them including what preceded them.
David Burkett
#35. When however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is going to be trouble.
John Irving
#36. 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
#37. You Never Know A True Friend Until You get Into A Serious Misunderstanding With Him Or Her
Michael A. Johnson
#38. But we advance into the mystery beyond life only by misunderstanding the living.
Michael W. Clune
#39. Misunderstanding - A "Missed Understanding" because of the human preference to Assumption over Clarification.
Drishti Bablani
#40. Misunderstanding of the dream. In the ages of crude primeval culture man believed that in dreams he got to know another real world; here is the origin of all metaphysics.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to wither the blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, cannot be renewed ... The gushing fountains which sparkle in the sun must not be stopped in mere caprice; the oasis in the desert of Sahara must not be plucked up idly.
Charles Dickens
#42. I don't know. I don't really like old movies. The acting is so, 'Hey buddy, ol' pal. Let's go wear our hats and have a big misunderstanding
Stephanie Perkins
#43. I'm a simple man, Janet. I say what I mean and have no talent for games. I want to show you how I feel about you so there's no chance for misunderstanding. If you think I'm trying to romance you, you're right. I am.
Pamela Clare
#44. That which triggers understanding often is found by bringing misunderstanding to the light.
Dane R. Pascoe
#45. A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.
Bassam Tibi
#46. Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ...
T. S. Eliot
#47. By precluding meaningful communication it fosters misunderstanding on both sides."
(Freedom Rider Diary: Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison, p. 49)
Carol Ruth Silver
#48. Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#49. No more unnerving than Christians praying at the feet of a man nailed to a cross, or Hindus chanting in front of a four-armed elephant named Ganesh. Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of prejudice.
Dan Brown
#50. A misunderstanding?" Elizabeth echoed. "With an anvil?"
"Oh, stop," Harriet admonished her. "I think he looks very dashing."
"As if he dashed into an anvil.
Julia Quinn
#51. Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
#52. Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
Barbara Kingsolver
#53. I guess I'm depressed. I don't know. I can't explain it. Part of it is the irritability of being 84, and part of it is being not as physically strong as I once was. And part of it is my misunderstanding, I think, of what's going on in the world.
Toni Morrison
#54. Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#55. We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people's minds.
Shannon L. Alder
#56. The term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the adolescent into misunderstanding as to his nature and his role in life. 'Young he is; 'adult' he is not.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#57. The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#58. Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.
Oscar A. Romero
#60. Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.
Raheel Farooq
#61. Wolves fear humans for good reason. Humans fear wolves out of misunderstanding.
John Theberge
#62. We're not really intruding," he called down. "This is all a big misunderstanding."
"Stop right there!" shouted one of them.
Skulduggery held his hand to an ear he didn't have.
"What's that?"
"Stop!"
"Keep going?"
"STOP!"
"OK, we'll keep going.
Derek Landy
#63. Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans - and misunderstood by people struggling in good faith with difficult ideas - than quantum mechanics.
Sean Carroll
#64. Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.
Burning Spear
#65. Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.
Barry Ritholtz
#66. We are only allowed to live
due to some colossal misunderstanding.
Jeramy Dodds
#67. The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding
Neetesh Dixit
#68. The lectures you deliver
may be wise and true,
But I'd rather get my lessons
by observing what you do.
I may not understand
the high advise you like to give,
But there's no misunderstanding
how you act and how you live.
Edgar Guest
#69. I'm a fatalist ... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.
Arthur Miller
#70. Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.
Richard Lamm
#71. That is definitely a misunderstanding between me and a part of my audience. To be honest, I am often unsettled by the responses some people have had to my movies, and that includes many people who like them.
Todd Solondz
#72. Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.
Dream Hampton
#73. When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
Jean Rostand
#74. Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Lionel Trilling
#75. Paulie Pastrami learned that a misunderstanding could often be settled with a cupcake.
James Proimos
#76. I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.
Anthony Horowitz
#77. Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding.
Lion Feuchtwanger
#78. Mother and daughter got on very well indeed, with a deep affection founded on almost complete misunderstanding.
Mary Stewart
#79. We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
Kevin Kelly
#80. We were destined to collide but the river of misunderstanding left us at the opposite banks.
Neetesh Dixit
#81. Fear itself is born out of misunderstanding the true nature of reality.
Matthew Bortolin
#82. Nicholas says that magic isn't inherently good or bad, it's what people do with it that makes it that way. It took me a long time to understand that. Once I did, I realized it isn't magic that separates us from them, or you from me. It's misunderstanding.
Virginia Boecker
#83. Five minutes of communication can save a year's worth of turmoil and misunderstanding.
Joyce Meyer
#84. I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will be pushback, resistance, and misunderstanding. I look at each of these experiences as an opportunity to educate and make the path potentially less daunting for anyone else that follows in my footsteps.
Joanna Lohman
#85. There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.'
Mitch Kapor
#86. To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
Anatole Broyard
#87. The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
Oscar Wilde
#88. Not only the entire ability to think rests on language ... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
Johann Georg Hamann
#90. Because of an innocent misunderstanding you think that you are a human being in the relative world seeking the experience of oneness, but actually you are the One expressing itself as the experience of being a human being.
Adyashanti
#91. Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
Stephen Jay Gould
#92. 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
#94. Misunderstanding are always cause by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. The best way to dispel ignorance of the doings of others is by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thoughts intercourse.
Nikola Tesla
#96. If there is such a thing as platonic love between a man and a woman it is the result of a profound misunderstanding, a stifling of their true and authentic impulses.
George Clooney
#97. It's easy to dismiss design - to relegate it to mere ornament, the prettifying of places and objects to disguise their banality. But that is a serious misunderstanding of what design is and why it matters - especially now.
Daniel H. Pink
#98. The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
Gilbert Murray
#99. I probably misunderstand misunderstanding itself
Kenneth Koch
#100. It was fortunate that love did not need words; or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness.
Hermann Hesse
