Misunderstanding Quotes

317 quotes by 267 authors

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. — Charles Baudelaire
The world only goes round by misunderstanding. — Charles Baudelaire
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. — Simone de Beauvoir
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. — Ambrose Bierce
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
It does grieve me to think there are people misunderstanding my heart on an issue. — Kirk Cameron
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of… — Samuel Alexander
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. — Dick Cavett
There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked. — Pamela Anderson
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. — Diane Arbus
We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development… — Abul Kalam Azad
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? — Philip Roth
The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the historical period in… — Mao Zedong
I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically. — George W. Bush
As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of… — Philibert Joseph Roux
Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty… — Buck Rodgers
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… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. — Andre Gide
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… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are… — William Lawrence Bragg

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