Quotes About Misunderstanding

It's hard to know what's right when everyone thinks you're wrong.

Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.

All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.

If this is what you believe, you are wrong: Penthesilea

The generations stare at each other grimly, they speak only to misunderstand each other, to trade blame for growing up unhappy and dying disappointed.

How can a dialogue be established between the two of you if each thinks he hears, not the words of the other, but his own words, repeated by the echo?

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

She looked right at me and said nothing. I assumed it was because she was hanging from my every word, so I continued.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Het is altijd vervelend wanneer iemand je geen antwoord geeft of niet doet alsof hij je niet verstaat. Dat gebeurt op vergaderingen ook wel eens. De woorden blijven in de lucht hangen, zoals dat heet, en de betrokkene doet zijn uiterste best zijn verlegenheid en irritatie te verbergen door zich met een scherpe wending in zijn betoog tot iemand te richten die op dat moment toevallig in zijn richting kijkt.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

We may feel angry because they don't guess who we are or what we want from them, because "if they really loved us," of course, they would be able to guess.

It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Americans dumped tea into the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the First World War, which ended with the invasion of Grenada and the development of the cotton press.

when I see you here amidst all this, I realise that I proposed to a very small part of you. I thought I was giving you a home and a position, but here I see that I am taking you away from so much.

Every leader-writer who thunders 'Galileo' at us assumes that we know even less about Galileo than he does.

You are -" she stopped fanning long enough to push the glasses up her nose - "Sprout Bradford?" I thought it was a little pretentious to say "You are Sprout Bradford?" instead of "Are you Sprout Bradford?" so I said, "I are Sprout Bradford!" in my best half-hick, half-retard voice.

I hate it when people repeat the last thing that's been said to them because they're too afraid to ask what the other person meant by it. "You want to remember this moment," I said finally, because when it comes right down to it, I'm a coward.

People said he was a dope fiend and that sometime he would get dangerous. But he never did and he made the best hamburgers anyone ever ate.

Most haven't a clue as to how socially inept their own actions are.

There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.