Quotes About Misunderstanding

I thought you were my friend. Despite himself, Ender's voice trembled. Graff looked puzzled. Whatever gave you that idea, Ender? Because you— Because you spoke nicely to me, and honestly. You didn't lie.

I suspect that this is the true tragedy of the human condition. The more closely we're involved with other people, the more isolated and misunderstood we feel. Because nobody can possible know us, and we can't possible know anybody, not even ourselves. Wakers, p 427/566

you never knew why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even knew themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

True believers in a cause often behaved in self-defeating ways because they expected other people to see the rightness of their cause if they just stated it clearly enough. As a result, they tipped their hand in every game and couldn't understand why everyone ganged up against them.

That's what it means to be married. You fight all the time, but you never fight about what you think you're fighting about.

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

He let the pieces of the napkin flutter to the floor and said something strange about words being good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

Men scorn what they don't understand.

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

Tomorrow at the press conference would be dreadful. She would be surrounded by nice young men who spoke Big Business or Computer or Bachelor on the Make, and she would not understand a word they said. Short Story: Blued Moon

There is nothing more helpful than shouted instructions, particularly incomprehensible ones.

Buddhism has been so much admired mainly for what it is not.

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

You don't know shit from apple butter.

He had a tattoo of a bird on his neck done by someone with an ill-formed notion of their appearance.

Do you think horses understand what people say? I aint sure most people do.

Or some agent of the Matacumbe Petroleum Group. Who must think that he thought that they thought that he thought they were very dumb. He thought about that.

When they brought Blevins back he sat in the corner and didnt speak. John Grady talked with the old man. His name was Orlando. He didnt know what crime he was accused of. He'd been told he could go when he signed the papers but he couldnt read the papers and no one would read them to him. He didnt know how long he'd been here. Since sometime in the winter. While they were talking the guards came again and the old man shut up.

There's always somebody that doesn't get the word.