Misunderstand Quotes

107 quotes by 97 authors

There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way… — Neale Donald Walsch
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible… — John Ruskin
I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half… — Robert Frost
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not… — Patrick O'Brian
With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the… — David McCullough
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And… — Jane Austen
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively… — Iain Banks
The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in… — Chuck Klosterman
Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me,… — William P. Young
We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person...so… — Natsuki Takaya
Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there to sniff aught… — Tamora Pierce
Donâ€™t try to understand! Itâ€™s enough if you do not misunderstand. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as… — Guy de Maupassant
Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's… — Margaret Atwood
To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of… — Aung San Suu Kyi
It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained,… — C.S. Lewis
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else. — Jorge Luis Borges
I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood. — Soren Kierkegaard

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