Quotes About Misinterpretation

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

My mouth is sore from continually extracting my foot from it.

I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think he was asking for trouble, and he certainly was misunderstood.

When you committed to love me, cherish me, be only with me, protect my heart, I took all that literally. Silly me.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

Are we so plagued with the narrative fallacy?

as he mistook me for someone else and had no clue about what I was discussing.

what is called "healthy" is generally unhealthy, just as "social" networks are antisocial, and the "knowledge"-based economy is typically ignorant.

At the core, he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

he has no clue as to what he was talking about.

confusing intensity with frequency.

Il signor Paolo Ferrari era in sala da pranzo che beve-va il tè. Nel vederlo io riconobbi Turati, che era venuto in via Pastrengo una volta. Ma siccome m'avevan detto che si chiamava Paolo Ferrari, credetti, per ubbidienza, che fosse insieme Turati e Ferrari; e di nuovo verità e menzogna si mescolarono in me.

That's legally blind, I'm not legally blind Yes, she's illegally blind

Oh, I didn't know that. I thought you bitches were always screaming for equal rights?

Holmberg tried to help them, but he never fully grasped that the people he saw as remnants from the Paleolithic Age were actually the persecuted survivors of a recently shattered culture. It was as if he had come across refugees from a Nazi concentration camp, and concluded that they belonged to a culture that had always been barefoot and starving.

Reader, if you wrest my words beyond their fair construction, it is you, and not I, that are the April Fool.

Philosophers are people who talk about something they don't understand and make you think it's your fault!1

The irony is that more data can often present less clarity.

There's nothing worse than ruining a perfectly good moment by thinking someone else will find humor in something they absolutely do not.

But I know well that no good ever comes from mistaking manners for kindness.

I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

A lot of things get misinterpreted with me, I guess.

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.