Misunderstanding Quotes - Page 3

• Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

  Philip Roth

  Intelligent, Understanding, Scales

  Philip Roth, George John Searles (1992). “Conversations with Philip Roth”, p.266, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Expectations, Praying

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• Love is a labyrinth of misunderstandings whose way out doesn’t exist.

  Jacques-Alain Miller

  Love Is, Labyrinth, Way

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• The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Women, Mean

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• I've got nothing to hide and other misunderstandings of privacy

  Daniel J. Solove

  Privacy

  Daniel J. Solove (2011). “Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security”, p.8, Yale University Press

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• To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

  Dick Cavett

  Intellectual, Labels

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• Hugo?’ ‘Millicent?’ ‘Is that you?’ ‘Yes. Is that you?’ ‘Yes.’ Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

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• I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the simple reason that there is no desire to be understood. It is their problem if they don't understand, it is not my problem. If they misunderstand, it is their problem and their misery. I am not going to waste my sleep because millions of people are misunderstanding me.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Simple, People

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• When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Future, Science

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another. 'Value' is entirely subjective economic value, anyway while 'price' reflects whatever a buyer is willing to give up to get the object in question, and whatever the seller is willing to accept to give it up. Both are governed by the Law of Marginal Utility, which is actually a law of psychology, rather than economics. For government to attempt to dictate a 'fair price' betrays complete misunderstanding of the entire process.

  L. Neil Smith

  Giving Up, Government, Law

  "Ceres". Book by L. Neil Smith, 2009.

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• The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Sarcastic, Passion

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• Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Courage, Honesty

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• Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Communication, Journey, Confusion

  Cherie Carter-Scott (2010). “If Love Is A Game, These Are The Rules”, p.96, Random House

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• Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Thinking, Language, Reason

  "Sämtliche Werken". Book edited by Josef Nadle. Volume 3, p. 286, 1949 - 1957.

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• If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.

  Peter Welch

  Thinking, People, Pay

  "Rep. Peter Welch". Interview with Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. April 21, 2011.

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• So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.

  Ronald Reagan

  Struggle, Pride, Race

  Remarks at Annual Convention of National Association of Evangelicals, Orlando, Fla., 8 Mar. 1983 See George Lucas 11

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• Because we can't communicate, there's a lot of misunderstanding.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Communicate

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• The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Bases, Mutual

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Friday, Atheist

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• To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

  Anatole Broyard

  Punishment, Misunderstood, Possibility

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• A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

  Bertrand Russell

  Clever, Smart, Stupid

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• The breakdown of our language, evident in the misuse, i.e., the misunderstanding of nouns and adjectives, is most grave, though perhaps not so conspicuous, in the handling of prepositions, those modest little connectives that hold the parts of a phrase or a sentence together. They are the joints of any language, what make it, literally, articulate.

  Mary McCarthy

  Together, Adjectives, Phrases

  Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt

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• It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it’s worth being a public fool if that’s all you can be in order to communicate yourself.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Attitude, Order, Ideas

  "Edie: Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

  Pamela Anderson

  Thinking, Littles

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