Quotes About Misunderstanding

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

I just want to understand how people misunderstand each other!

A thing is never untold, It is always misperceived.

Those who don't understand your silence, Will never understand your words

You may never understand us, so it's natural you don't give a good manner towards us. It's logical.

If you love me, Henry, you don't love me in a way I understand.

In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

People who don't know me are so negative about me. When they finally meet me, they change that negative into a positive.

Mmm. O positive, my favorite." "Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon." "So it is," said Adrian, straight-faced. "My mistake.

Don't resent the artist for painting the wrong picture of you after you provided the colors of your character.

Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red

An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

I think of the internet like my disguise. It's the only place where people don't treat me like I'm either a monster or a charity case to be pitied.