Quotes About Misunderstanding

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding!

I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.

So I phoned up the spiritual leader of tibet, he sent me a large goat with a long neck, turns out I phoned dial a lama.

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

One could continue quoting Irigaray, but the reader is probably lost (so are we).

There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.

If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how gravely the purposes and plan of Masonry may be misunderstood. For whenever the door of any Degree is closed against him who believes in one God and the soul's immortality, on account of the other tenets of his faith, that Degree is Masonry no longer.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

El muchacho no había tenido mala intención. Lo cual, en cierta manera, empeoraba aún más las cosas. Los que le querían bien se comportaban lo mismo que los que le querían mal.

Whatever one says on the air is bound to be misunderstood; for people take from the heard or printed discourse that which they are predisposed to hear or read, not what is there- all that TV can do is to increase the number of misunderstanders by many thousandfold – and at the same time to increase the range of misunderstanding by providing no objective text to which the voluntarily ignorant can be made to refer.

I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.

People say: a donkey is stupid. When a man is told that he is not very intelligent, stubborn and lazy he is politely called an ass.

Perché una soluzione perfetta che non riesco a spiegare alla gente è destinata a fallire.

Rebecca pensò che quell'uomo la amava, solo che non lo sapeva, e non lo avrebbe mai saputo.

Tutti lo consideravano intelligentissimo, cosa che nella sensibilità comune equivaleva a considerarlo anemico, o daltonico: una malattia inoffensiva ed elegante.

Revelation comes with these misunderstandings. Stuart's life and way of thinking momentarily exposed. Like a break in the hedgerow during the country lane part of a journey. For an instant you glimpse scenery you haven't seen before - fields of poppy and cornflower, trees gnarled in the shape of demons.

Great feuds often need very few words to resolve them. Disputes, even between nations, between peoples, can be set to rest with simple acts of contrition and corresponding forgiveness, can so often be shown to be based on nothing much other than pride and misunderstanding, and the forgetting of the humanity of the other—and land, of course.

We want to reorganise the world, and that makes our brains jump the gun –sometimes. You look at a newspaper headline, take in one word, and before you know it your brain says: yes, that's what it says. But it may not.