Quotes About Understanding And Misunderstanding

#1. The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#2. Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding

Diane Arbus

#3. It was fortunate that love did not need words; or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness.

Hermann Hesse

#4. Not to understand something is better than misunderstanding it.

Vj Nadar

#5. As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good - I use it because I have to, but I don't put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

Marcel Duchamp

#6. Understanding has no cost, yet, it is too expensive for some people to purchase

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

Edwin H. Friedman

#8. Misunderstanding of divine truths or lack of understanding are the only things that may
prevent a man from becoming God's representative on earth

Sunday Adelaja

#9. 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

#10. Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.

Raheel Farooq

#11. Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. That which triggers understanding often is found by bringing misunderstanding to the light.

Dane R. Pascoe

#13. Misunderstanding - A "Missed Understanding" because of the human preference to Assumption over Clarification.

Drishti Bablani

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

Philip Yancey

#17. 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

#18. A small change in mind can greatly change misunderstanding to understanding! Until we really understand misunderstanding, we shall always misunderstand misunderstanding!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#19. If you don't want anyone to misunderstand you, go into yourself and thoroughly investigate and understand yourself. No one will ever misunderstand you ever again.

Hong Curley

#20. The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

Franz Kafka

#21. A common understanding is the pivot and a common way to bond the disintegrated

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#22. Try to build bridges of understanding. Don't build higher barriers of misunderstanding.

Dale Carnegie

#23. I would say much of religious heresy is the result of a misunderstanding of the basic nature of God. And once we have a proper understanding of God, then usually most of the areas of our life coincide with who God is and what He desires for each one of us.

Josh McDowell

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#25. When we miss understanding, we meet misunderstanding. Misunderstanding always pushes understanding far away!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#26. To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.

Haim Ginott

#27. If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Criss Jami

#28. When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Criss Jami

#29. In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.

T.F. Hodge

#30. Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

Elias Canetti

#31. 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