Quotes About Misinterpretation

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

I joke a lot and I don't think the UFC understands my joking.

Rather than being a 'perversion' of Islam, it is truer to say that the version of Islam espoused by ISIS, while undoubtedly the worst possible interpretation of Islam, and for Muslims and non-Muslims everywhere obviously the most destructive version of Islam, is nevertheless a plausible interpretation of Islam.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

You got it all wrong in your way of thinking.

If you point to paradise, all the shortsighted will see is your finger.

Don't judge a lion by its swimming abilities.

Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool.

You have sent me a Flanders mare.

Women don't ask to be raped, but there are some that are asking to be motorboated

Right away I'm associated with what Donald Trump stands for and all that because I introduced him. I never signed up for that, I never wanted that. That doesn't mean I support 100 percent of the things he says.

Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

ALL FORCES WITHIN NATURE ARE ESSENTIALLY NEUTRAL. THEY MANIFEST EITHER POSITIVELY OR NEGATIVELY DEPENDING UPON THE INTENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL. IT IS THE MISINTERPRETATION OF THIS FACT THAT HAS GIVEN RISE TO THE ERRONEOUS CONCEPT OF FREE WILL. WARRIORS DO NOT HAVE FREE WILL; FOR THEM THERE IS ONLY THE CHOICE TO ACT IMPECCABLY OR UNIMPECCABLY. TO ACT UNIMPECCABLY IS FOR WARRIORS NOT A CHOICE WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION; THEREFORE FREE WILL IS A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS.

It has become all too typical of western youth, to mistake their personal angst for a universal political cause.

Sometimes people do what they think is for the best, and their intentions are misinterpreted.

People sort of misinterpret the immigration story. I often hear people say that, well, you know, they emigrate to another country for a better life. That is not what the story of the immigrant is. They go to another country to provide opportunities for the next generation.

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.

I always need to clear up what I do. With everyone else, there is no problem, but with me, all hell is raised up.