Misunderstanding Quotes - Page 11

• Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.

  Gustave Courbet

  Cutting, Trying, Limits

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• In fact it was always the Communist problem which was responsible for the opposition to [Albert] Camus. It was always and overall a political thing, a kind of misunderstanding.

  Catherine Camus

  Political, Facts, Kind

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Perfect, Confusion

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• Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.

  Nikola Tesla

  Ignorance, Views, Appreciate

  "The Transmission Of Electrical Energy Without Wires As A Means For Furthering Peace". "Electrical World and Engineer", (pp. 21-24), January 7, 1905.

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• He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death. He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.

  Jack London

  Dog, Fighting, Law

  Jack London (2016). “Klondike Two Pack: The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of matter, with many ways for things to go wrong and only a few ways for things to go right. We are certain to die, and smart enough to know it. Our minds are adapted to a world that no longer exists, prone to misunderstandings correctable only by arduous education, and condemned to perplexity about the deepest questions we can ascertain.

  Steven Pinker

  Smart, Makeup, Judging

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• People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit in the cross- legged position, or to attain enlightenment. It is difficult because it is hard to keep our mind pure and our practice pure in its fundamental sense.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Practice, People, Mind

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm used to working with neglect and misunderstanding, so this has been really challenging. It's a different psychic realm. The Lion did not land easily here.

  Carolee Schneemann

  Challenges, Different, Neglect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.

  Michel de Certeau

  Practice, Cities, Oblivion

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Discovery, Nuts, Community

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• I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

  Alanis Morissette

  Eye, Thinking, People

  "Alanis Morissette on Her New Album, Changing Diapers, and Celebrity: 'Fame for Me Was Relatively Hollow'". Interview with Marc Spitz, www.vanityfair.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Differences, Rejection, Prejudice

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity”, p.2, Kube Publishing Ltd

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• I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted myself to remain there. My honors are misunderstanding, persecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

  Thomas Eakins

  School, Should Have, Honor

  Letter to Harrison Morris, April 23, 1894.

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• I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my life, just when I think I've finished writing about it, the dynamics shift, and then I have a whole new set of questions and worries and misunderstandings to wrestle with.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Thinking, Always Trying

  Interview with Jennifer Messing, journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

  Nikola Tesla

  Fighting, Government, Individual

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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• Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.

  Arthur Wallis

  Israel, Ahab, Pathways

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• I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane...I told the doctor, I said, 'Look, I'm worried about the next election.' ... A misunderstanding.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Airplane, Doctors

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• I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and "Hispanically".

  George W. Bush

  Silly, Funny Bush, Bushism

  Remarks at the Radio-Television Correspondents Association 57th Annual Dinner in Washington Hilton Hotel, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 29, 2001.

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• The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

  Jose Saramago

  Mankind

  "Cain". Book by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, www.newyorker.com. 2009.

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• So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There will be no exceptions. The (players) union is aware of that and they accept it.

  Bud Selig

  Player, Perspective, Unions

  "Notable Quotes: Steroid Hearings" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2005.

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• One of the goals of scientific theorising is to develop concepts which are adequate to the phenomena under study. In my view, things should work the same way in epistemology. We want to know what knowledge actually amounts to, not what our folk concept of knowledge is, since, just as with our pretheoretical concept of acidity, it might contain all sorts of misunderstandings and leave out all manner of important things.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Views, Goal, Important

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Andrea Leadsom, I think, has all the qualities that you need at the moment. She's got a lot of zap, a lot of drive, and all the experience. Plus I think she can articulate what's needed at the moment, which is a bit of an antidote to some of the gloom and negativity and misunderstanding about what the Brexit vote means.

  Boris Johnson

  Mean, Thinking, Negativity

  "Theresa May wins first round of voting in Tory leadership race" by Anushka Asthana and Rowena Mason, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2016.

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• There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

  Shane Claiborne

  Leaving, Bigs

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• Some [people] think that there is a central organization responsible for all the institutions they wrongly think affiliated with me. They ignore the zeal of many to serve humanity and to gain God's good pleasure in doing so. They ignore people's generosity. Such misunderstandings may lead others to have suspicions about the financial resources of the schools.

  Fethullah Gulen

  School, Thinking, Organization

  Source: gulenlibrary.org

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• I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy—for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Strong, Mean, Opportunity

  Penelope Fitzgerald (2009). “A House of Air”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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