Quotes About Misinterpretation

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?

Who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words

mistaking in his dull, never to be matured mind, her loneliness for respect of his strength and virility)

It is not true that people learn nothing from history: they are marvellous at learning the wrong lessons.

If we knew everything that was ever said about us and if at the same time we took every word at face value, we would remain friends with no one.

I never could talk to my sister Molly, because she was loopy

Because someone else will mention it to you anyway, I will list Stephen Jay Gould 's book ( The Mismeasure of Man ). It gets the psychometrics wrong, it is wrong on brain size and intelligence, and it is written with strong anti-IQ-testing bias.

Much smoke has been seen, and caused great fear of fire — even when no fire ensued.

Muchas enseñanzas religiosas en el mundo son en realidad una forma confusa o deteriorada, muy diferente a sus raíces.

You were listening at the door, Gigi!" "No, Grandmamma." "Yes, you had your ear to the keyhole. You must never listen at key-holes. You don't hear properly and so you get things all wrong.

Whatever you think someone feels is most likely the exact opposite.

she had meant to woo him. In her own weird, unsettling way she had simply been courting him and he'd been too stupid to realize it.

I've always been taught that religion is supposed to be a comfort to people, not a threat. I think these people have perverted something that's supposed to be holy and turned it into a weapon.

That's the trouble with witnesses. They always look at the wrong things.

I happen to like Philippians 4:6, but I also don't like how it is used as a "clobber verse" to make anxious people feel like they're doing something wrong or, even worse, that there is something wrong about them. As with most clobber verses, in this situation it is being used out of context.

Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.

She had made a fool of the whole thing by asking old Durnet and Mrs. Goldsmith. The former was practically an imbecile in Mr. Bulmer's opinion—a good many people were practically imbeciles in Mr. Bulmer's opinion.

It's a pity more people are not as brave as the Colonel," said Mrs. Featherstone Hogg with asperity. She had pondered for so long over the horse-whipping business that she was now convinced in her own mind that the whole thing was settled with Colonel Weatherhead. It would have been almost impossible to disabuse her mind of the conviction that Colonel Weatherhead had agreed with alacrity to horse-whip John Smith. Fortunately, nobody present was in a position to try.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

It's a vicious circle. If you feel hideous, you convey it to people. A couple of male friends from university have said, 'I quite fancied you, but I wouldn't have dared...' and I was like, 'Oh really?' I was completely amazed that anyone had ever fancied me, and also that I'd obviously given an impression of 'Don't touch me.'

The law provides a remedy, charging those who threaten a victim's data for the purpose of extortion. Extending criminal liability to innocent third-party digital currency exchangers, or any other third-party financial institution, would be an utterly unwarranted and unjust misinterpretation both of law and policy.

Gus and I talk about girls a lot, but we can't figure them out. They are so confusing. Like, if you look at them, they get mad. And if you don't look at them, they get mad. And if you're nice to them, they think you like them. And if you're mean to them, they think you like them. And if you do like them, they think you hate them.