“The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.” Friedrich Nietzsche
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” George Bernard Shaw
“Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.” Dream Hampton
“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. And yours,” he replied with a smile, “is wilfully to misunderstand them.” Jane Austen
“If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.” — Criss Jami
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” Albert Schweitzer
“The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.” William Saroyan
“The world only goes round by misunderstanding.” Charles Baudelaire
“We’re all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person…so it’s easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.” Natsuki Takaya
“It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.” Anatole France
“Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.” Shannon L. Alder
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The greatest distance between two people is a misunderstanding.” Unknown
“They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.” Pandora Poikilos
“The text has disappeared under the interpretation.” Friedrich Nietzsche
“It’s dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other” L.M. Montgomery
“It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.” Charles Baudelaire
“It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.” Zora Neale Hurston
“The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.” Oscar Wilde
“We may like to know the relevance of loyalty in an ever-shifting world and comprehend the essence of “commitment” in a rapidly altering relationship. In a frame of the “easy come easy go syndrome” many interpretations are brought to mind like “It was all a misunderstanding” or “I liked what the other did, but at this moment I must recognize he didn’t do what I really do like”. (“Was it all worthwhile?”)” Erik Pevernagie
“We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.” Suzy Kassem
“They ended as all great passions do end—–by a misunderstanding.” Honore de Balzac
“In human intercourse, the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.” Henry David Thoreau
“In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage.” Ian McEwan
“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.” Edwin H. Friedman
“The overall purpose of human communication is – or should be – reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.” M. Scott Peck
“We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstanding.” –Barry Long
“We are aware that blaming and arguing can never help us and only create a wider gap between us; that only understanding, trust, and love can help us change and grow.” Thich Nhat Hanh
“Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.” Oscar Wilde
“We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.” Rudyard Kipling
“In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.” Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
“Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed rather at not being understanding.” Chinese Proverb
“Unfortunately, missing the author’s point, or not understanding the book, is not enough to prevent one from reviewing and/or rating it.” Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“There is so much we don’t understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.” Alice Walker
“A beautiful relationship does not depend on how well we understand someone. But it depends on how well we avoid the misunderstanding.” Unknown
“The misunderstanding of truth does not destroy the truth.” Vissarion Belinsky
“The best conversations are with yourself. At least there’s no risk of a misunderstanding.” Olga Tokarczuk
“There is no communication that is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.” Luigina Sgarro
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
“The fresh “breeze of freedom” that so many people promise lightheartedly, so often, remains void in the hot desert of yearning expectations. Pretending that everything is just a deplorable misunderstanding, may soothe their conscience and let them walk out easily on their pledge.” Erik Pevernagie
“You always risk people misunderstanding you when you say anything.” Phil Lord
“Not knowing how venom kills does not take away the usefulness of knowing that it does.” Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Nothing is easier than for two people in love to misunderstand each other.” Marty Rubin
“Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.” Lionel Trilling
“Whenever you find yourself judging your partner, go back to your in-breath and out-breath, and ask, How can I see this differently? Can I look more deeply to better understand her suffering and her difficulties?” Thich Nhat Hanh
“The only thing for sure we know about communication is that we tend to get it wrong.” Michael Ray Smith
“Many parents love their children. Yet they make them suffer a lot in the name of love. They’re often not capable of understanding their children’s suffering, difficulties, hopes, and aspirations. We have to ask ourselves, “Am I really loving the other person by understanding them or am I just projecting my own needs?” Thich Nhat Hanh
“For weeks I had mistaken his stare for barefaced hostility. I was wide of the mark. It was simply a shy man’s way of holding someone else’s gaze. We were, it finally dawned on me, the two shyest persons in the world.” André Aciman
“Let them judge you, but remain virtuous. Let them criticize you, but remain wise. Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.” Matshona Dhliwayo
“Not understanding something, especially if you have an active imagination, always makes something feel worse than it is.” –John Maberry
“Bringing the feeling of the heart into the words, is the expression, without expression one gains nothing; however, openly, and plainly it may eliminate the misunderstandings and make the ways easy for any decision”
― Ehsan Sehgal
“I always got the words pedestrian and Presbyterian confused. I didn’t understand why Presbyterians always had the right of way.”
― Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
“We don’t always get to decide what others see when they sum us up or reduce us to a caricature of the rich and various selves we think we have fashioned.”
― Robert Boyers, The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies
“And it worries me how misunderstandings exist because people would rather have a hole in their heart than to talk their issues out.”
― Faraaz Kazi
“Your mutual misunderstandings make me squirm. It’s like watching a dragonlet flame his own tail.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn
“I am responsible for what I have said, I am not responsible for what you have not understood”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
“All the good times evaporated like naphtha, the moment some air of misconceptions touched it.”
― Faraaz Kazi
“I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms.
I wanted to, but I did not!”
― Faraaz Kazi
“The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone.”
― Faraaz Kazi
“I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.”
― Clarence Darrow
“If we don’t cultivate the growing patch of our feelings closely, emotional anarchism can disrupt the mosaic of our thinking pattern, with love becoming a series of misunderstandings. ( “Alpha and Omega”)”
― Erik Pevernagie
“Let us take the time to explore our inner-selves and get acquainted with our real identity and recognize the quirky corners of our being. Thus, we can view others from another angle and come to see them in a new light that allows us to distinguish past possible misunderstandings.( “Words had disappeared”)”
― Erik Pevernagie
“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can’t you see who I truly am?”
― Shannon L. Alder
“The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
“A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.“
A single moment of misunderstanding is so poisonous, that it makes us forget the hundred lovable moments spent together within a minute.
Being misunderstood by someone is vexing. Being misunderstood by everyone is a tragedy.
“Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.”
“If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks, then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.”
“It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.”
“Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding.“
“Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.”
“Miscommunication leads to misunderstanding, which rarely leads to anything good.”
“My biggest concern is people misunderstanding me.”
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”
“Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.”
“Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.”
“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.”
“The world only goes round by misunderstanding.”
“We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.”
“We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
“Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.”
You always risk people misunderstanding you when you say anything
“It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.”
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding.
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
“Miscommunication leads to misunderstanding, which rarely leads to anything good.” — Charles F. Glassman
“Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.” — Dream Hampton
“If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks, then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.” — Zora Neale Hurston
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” — Albert Schweitzer
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.” — Lionel Trilling
“In human intercourse, the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.” — Henry David Thoreau
“We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.” — Rudyard Kipling
“The overall purpose of human communication is – or should be – reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.” — M. Scott Peck
“Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.” — Oscar Wilde
“In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.” — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
“We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.” — Kevin Kelly
“It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.” — Charles Baudelaire
“A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.” — Bob Dylan
“The world only goes round by misunderstanding.” — Charles Baudelaire
“The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?” — Phillip Roth
“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
“I think there was a misunderstanding about what yesterday’s meeting was all about, and we had one idea of what we were coming for and they had another. And we got off on a bad foot, but we’re gonna continue to meet tomorrow and move forward.” — Jeff Friedman
“How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied–or, for that matter, awarded–because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances, you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.” — Kevin Brockmeier
“It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is, of course, an enjoyment.” — Samuel Alexander
“Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.” — Unknown
“But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.” — Jim Bunning
“I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick’s wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.” — Salman Rushdie
“Don’t make friends before understanding and don’t break friendship after misunderstanding.” — Unknown
“Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.” — Diane Arbus
“A beautiful relationship does not depend on how well we understand someone. But it depends on how well we avoid the misunderstanding.” — Unknown
“Never apologize to others for their misunderstanding of who you are.” — Unknown
“There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.” — Louis Kronenberger
“It’s dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.” — L. M. Montgomery
“Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.” — John Lennon
“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.” — Franz Kafka
“It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.” — Anatole France
“I do believe that simple things really matter because even a simple misunderstanding can ruin everything.” — Unknown
“Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.” — Sogyal Rinpoche
“Clear up any misunderstanding before it gets to that point.” — Joel Miller
“Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“If you don’t clear your misunderstanding in time they become the reason for distance forever.” — Unknown
“When nails grow long, we cut nails not fingers. Similarly when misunderstanding grows up, cut your ego, not your relationship.” — Unknown
“A single moment of misunderstanding is so poisonous that it makes us forget the hundreds of lovable moments we’ve spent together within a minute.” — Unknown
“The greatest distance between two people is a misunderstanding.” — Unknown
“When there’s a misunderstanding, one must make a compromise. This word is not a bad word.” — Nicolas Sarkozy
“The misunderstanding of truth does not destroy the truth.” — Vissarion Belinsky
“The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.” — Eric Parslow
“Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.” — Andre Gide
“You always risk people misunderstanding you when you say anything.” — Phil Lord
“Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.” — David Mixner
“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.” — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
“They ended as all great passions do end—by a misunderstanding.” — Honore de Balzac
“We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstanding.” — Barry Long
“They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.” — Unknown
“No matter how carefully you choose your words, they’ll always end up being twisted by others.” — Unknown
“Five minutes of communication can save a year’s worth of turmoil and misunderstanding.” — Joyce Meyer
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, ‘What else could this mean?’” — Shannon L. Alder
“Language is the source of misunderstandings.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.” — William James
“Because we can’t communicate, there’s a lot of misunderstanding.” — Chen Shui Bian
“Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.” — Barton Gellman
“A lot of people misunderstand me. That’s because they don’t know me at all.” — Michael Jackson
“We’re all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person… so it’s easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.” — Natsuki Takaya
“The text has disappeared under the interpretation.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.” — Stephen Fry
“Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed rather at not being understanding.” — Chinese Proverbs
“I’m only responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.” — Unknown
“It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.” — Kerl Popper
“Being misunderstood doesn’t mean you’re the issue… sometimes it’s the people that misunderstand you with all the issues.” — Unknown
“People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.” — Soren Kierkegaard
“We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don’t — and those feelings are probably realistic.” — Hugh Prather
“Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.” — Oscar Wilde
“So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!” — Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
“You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.” — Edie Sedgwick
“The ocean gets its saltiness from the tears of misunderstood sharks.” — Unknown
“An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.” — Napoleon Bonaparte