Quotes About Misinterpretation

The understanding that the political and intellectual class of the United States has of Mexico is a country whose position is that of a back yard.

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

I think it's in a way my tragedy that people don't see me for the serious roles I have played.

I never used a translator, never thought that the journalists might not understand.

One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You're bored. You're depressed. You're shy. You're stuck up. You're judgmental. When others can't read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that's true to who we are.

Apéritif: French for a set of dentures.

How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can't even understand one another?

María Antonieta charla exclusivamente con la boca, y no con la cabeza.

Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively.

It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

Argument is not always truth.

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

And though there's a grain of truth in every rumor, I've found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.