Misunderstanding Quotes

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...

Olive was way beyond hearing anything, but her chin was set and she was determined to help the pilot...

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be a...

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean somethin...

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, languag...

I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t...

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men d...

Thus with most careful devotionThus with precise attentionTo detail, interfering preparationOf that ...

The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is calle...

My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kill...

And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem ...

John says I musn't lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to...

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and a...

Miss Mackintosh waved her arms wildly."Oh, please stop, and let me guess," she cried. "I shall go cr...

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was ...

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

I have often misunderstood men grossly, and I have misrepresented them when I understood them, sacri...

In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise...