Quotes About Misunderstanding

I didn't answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness.

If I had known his favorite game was mental twister, I would have suggested a movie over game night.

He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean.

Love if mishandled spreads hatred and creates agony and chaos.

It figured my family would get along better with Clark than they did me.

What a mess you've made of the simplest of subjects, Della.

Your biggest mistake is thinking the other person gets affected or cares about how you feel. You think, your suffering, your feelings, and your pain is felt by the person you're sinking for..

If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

Now, in addition to these traits, he defaults to thinking that what he doesn't see is not there, or what he does not understand does not exist. At the core, he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

people often confuse complex ideas that cannot be simplified into a media-friendly statement as symptomatic of a confused mind.

our misunderstanding of the Black Swan can be largely attributed to our using System 1, i.e., narratives

During a radio interview, when I tried explaining to the journalist the nuance and the difference between the two statements I was told that I was "too complicated"; so I simply walked out of the studio, leaving them in the lurch. The depressing part is that those people who were committing such mistakes were educated journalists entrusted to represent the world to us lay persons.

Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort—a disease of civilization: make life longer and longer, while people are more and more sick.

The source of the tragic in history is in mistaking someone else's unconditional for conditional—and the reverse.

The central point: had Stiglitz been a businessman with his own money on the line, he would have blown up, terminated. Or had he been in nature, his genes would have been made extinct—so people with such misunderstanding of probability would eventually disappear from our DNA. What I found nauseating was the government hiring one of his coauthors.

as he mistook me for someone else and had no clue about what I was discussing.

he has no clue as to what he was talking about.

confusing intensity with frequency.

I do not dispute that arguments should be simplified to their maximum potential; but people often confuse complex ideas that cannot be simplified into a media-friendly statement as symptomatic of a confused mind.

without reading him, using his ideas in a self-serving selective manner—ideas that he most certainly did not endorse in the form they are presented.

They've really begun the war, he said to himself. And all over a word in a dictionary, the ninnies!

In the end the three of them were so completely estranged that it was hard to understand why they even lived together.