“There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and at the same time… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as emotional incompatibility. There are only misunderstandings and mistakes which can easily be set right if we… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about… — John Searle Copy Share Image
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I had this thought a while ago, "My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955) — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When people ask me how I was able to make so much money in the market during a 20-year period, I would… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. In addition, we must be capable of… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after. — Jean Ferris Copy Share Image
Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we have to prove our Europeanism by accepting that French is the dominant language in the Community, then my answer is… — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Five minutes of communication can save a year's worth of turmoil and misunderstanding. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image