Misunderstanding Quotes

317 quotes by 263 authors

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding. — Oscar Wilde
And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after. — Jean Ferris
As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses… — Bell Hooks
They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding,… — Jean M. Auel
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather… — Heidi Julavits
Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of… — Steven Pinker
He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started… — Jack London
(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought… — Peter Carey
A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object… — Simone de Beauvoir
Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility. — Italo Svevo
And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted… — Michel Foucault
How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter,… — Kevin Brockmeier
Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? — Soren Kierkegaard
But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about… — E. M. Forster
Language is the source of misunderstandings. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology.… — Joseph Campbell
Driven by a wish to save TomÃ¡s from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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