Transgression Quote by Barbara Ann Kipfer

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction....

— Hosea Ballou

The most successful form of correction is when the "other" feels informed versus chastised.

— Bill Crawford

If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.

— Norm MacDonald

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

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

— Nancy Gibbs

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

— Philip Yancey

Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.

— Felix Frankfurter

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.

— Jon Elster

I know what it is to be misunderstood.

— Robert Parish

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.

— Frederick Pollock

I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it. Just go…

— Irvine Welsh