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Quotes About Misunderstanding

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
~ Abraham Maslow
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.
~ Twiggy
If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.
~ Charles Handy
Misunderstandi ngs happen because we do not understand that different people have different styles of communication.
~ Tony Alessandra
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
~ James Thurber
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
~ Karl Popper
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
~ James Whistler
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.
~ Paul Tournier
Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.
~ David Malouf
A barrier to communication is something that keeps meanings from meeting.
~ Reuel Howe
One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.
~ Rachel Cohn
We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.
~ Dalai Lama
Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?
~ Stephen Colbert
Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.
~ David Allen
One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.
~ Georges Simenon
The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
~ Karl Kraus
Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)
~ Tucker Max
When communication in unclear speculations takes precedence.
~ Unknown
Real communication is not possible. That is why my message, your perception and your expression shall never be the same.
~ Harshit Walia
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel