Quotes About Misunderstanding

The longer your mother and I lived together, the more we took each other's assumptions for granted, the less was said, the more misunderstood.

Non potevo sapere cosa stava provando, perché non potevo capire il linguaggio dei suoi sentimenti. Io non sapevo che è New York. In cinese ny è tu. Credevo che voleva dire 'Io amo tu'. E' stato allora che ho notato i poster 'I<3 NY' sulle porte, e gli strofinacci 'I <3 NY' e il contenitore per alimenti 'I <3 NY' sul tavolo della cucina

Grandfather and I did not utter words pending the drive, which is not abnormal, because we have never uttered multitudinous words. I made efforts not to spleen him, but nonetheless did. For one example, I forgot to examine the map, and we missed our entrance to the superway. "Please do not punch me," I said, "but I made a miniature error with the map." Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.

Such constant irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people.

Anlamad???n?z bir insan? delidir diye nitelemek o kadar kolayd?r ki!

There never was a war between religion and empirical science, but there is a war between religion and

You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?

Fame is a form - perhaps the worst form - of incomprehension.

La gloria es una forma de incomprensión; quizás la peor.

La gloria é una forma di incomprensione, forse la peggiore.

Debe tratarse de una broma de nuestro amigo, mal escuchada.

Tú, que me lees, ¿estás seguro de entender mi lenguaje?

It was the way so many people wanted to see Indians - not as real human beings, but as symbols of something fierce and untamed.

My definition of mythology is other people's religion, which suggests that ours must be something else. My definition of religion, then, is misunderstood mythology — and the misunderstanding consists in mistaking the symbol for the reference. So all the historic events that are so important to us in our tradition should not be important to us in any way except as symbols of power within ourselves.

The community of today is the planet, not the bounded nation…patterns of coordinated agression can only break it into factions". We are in a time of "rationalized avarice and sanctified misunderstanding." Joseph Campbell, 1949

Silence is a text easy to misread.

Gone out. Backson. Busy backson.

I can't understand these student fellows. They don't want to study. They brandish a red flag, and then shoot themselves. They don't want to understand what their parents must feel.

Vance shook his head. "Philly, I love you, buddy. I do. But you're not my type." "I'm not?" "What? Are you insulted?" Philip was pondering that when the front door jingled.

more often than not, an exhibition is merely a misplaced object.

One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to form our ideas in words which have some previous association for us; with the result that our thought is already shaped along certain lines before we have begun to follow it out. Again, a word may have various meanings, and our use of it in one sense may deceive our readers (or even ourselves) into supposing that we were using it in some other sense.

Okazuje siÄ™ czasami, ?e rzeczy, które zdawaÅ'y siÄ™ bardzo proste, gdy miaÅ'o siÄ™ je w gÅ'owie, stajÄ… siÄ™ caÅ'kiem inne, gdy wychodzÄ… z gÅ'owy na Å›wiat i inni na nie patrzÄ….

Jak looks at me mock-longingly and spouts three more random Spanish words: "Amor y cacahuetes." "Love and peanuts?" I ask. Jak nods. "Love and peanuts.

Sometimes a spouse, in trying to relieve a partner's distress, accomplishes just the opposite.