Top 325 Misunderstanding Quotes & Sayings

The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.

There's probably some misunderstanding of who I am and how I roll.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.

My biggest concern is people misunderstanding me.

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.

Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

A mutual misunderstanding.

Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.

A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.

My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

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

You always risk people misunderstanding you when you say anything.

The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation.

Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.

What happened to your face?" Harriet asked. "It was a misunderstanding," Daniel said smoothly, wondering how long it might take for his bruises to heal. He did not think he was particularly vain, but the questions were growing tiresome. "A misunderstanding?" Elizabeth echoed. "With an anvil?" "Oh, stop," Harriet admonished her. "I think he looks very dashing." "As if he dashed into an anvil." "Pay no attention," Harriet said to him. "She lacks imagination.

I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics. He (Obama) believes that the pie is fixed and that he needs to more equitably divide up the slices.

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

It does grieve me to think there are people misunderstanding my heart on an issue.

Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.

I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

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

So many great ideas come out of a misunderstanding.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

The most common misunderstanding of disruptive innovations is to overestimate their impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. Another common misunderstanding is to associate disruptive with good.

Most trouble is unnecessary. Between the indignity of being born and the agony of dying enough bad things must of necessity happen to people. But we can't be satisfied with that. We have to go to work and see how much additional trouble we can create. Misunderstanding, turmoil, effort put on all the wrong things, and then more misunderstanding.

More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't! The final retort to that is: I have a doctorate in Catholic theology that I have earned the hard way - by sitting in university classrooms for twelve years. I know what we believe! You get a doctorate in Catholic theology? What do you know about it? Nothing! You don't know anything about it. You're saying things that are born of misunderstanding or ignorance.

Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.

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

There was a misunderstanding with Barca. Something happened that I didn't like, but I prefer to keep it for myself.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

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

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

When we talk about pay equality, I think we're misunderstanding where the problem lies.

A judge sometimes must release a criminal. He doesn't like it, she doesn't like it, but the law requires it. And the context of an election in which you are "soft on crime" betrays a misunderstanding of the judicial process and a misunderstanding of the Constitution.

Fame is a form of misunderstanding.

The biggest misunderstanding about me is that I'm just a bratty, gobby idiot.

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

Five minutes of communication can save a year's worth of turmoil and misunderstanding.