I’m a lion in a strange land.

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

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...

Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.

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

Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.

I am the red wheelbarrow of communism. William Carlos Williams wrote a poem about me.

[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which...

Miss Mackintosh waved her arms wildly.”Oh, please stop, and let me guess,” she cried. “I shall go crazy with joy if I’m right. It was an old Peerage, and so she found that Lady Deal...

Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.

in the end, everyone can understand themselves only. You are the only one to which you never have to explain what you mean. Everything else is misunderstanding.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.

People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning. People who cheat assume everyone cheats. People who deceive assume everybody deceives.Confessions of...

Someday, the people we know, are acquainted to become the people we knew. They leave. They leave to pursue the opportunities laid down in their paths and they leave on account of misunderstandings.Their absence causes...

I just want to understand how people misunderstand each other!

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent...

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it....

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding

There is No Pleasure without Pain

You want me to wear a condom?!

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

I have often misunderstood men grossly, and I have misrepresented them when I understood them, sacrificing sense to make a phrase. Here, of course, is where even the most conscientious critic often goes aground; he...

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

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...

I once overheard someone telling someone else “Don’t confuse kindness with something else.” Even though this was not directed at me, I took heed and never hedged my bets.

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.

Don’t you trust me! What good is it if you don’t bloody trust me!

We both smile at the classic misunderstanding. It’s all so cliché-ridden, it’s embarrassing. I wish our story could have some more original twists and turns. Maybe one of us will turn into a vampire or...

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

If the praise of man elates me and his blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstanding without defending myself if I love to be loved more than to love…then I know nothing of...

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...

All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.

The common man prays, ‘I want a cookie right now!’ And God responds, ‘If you’d listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite of the false messages running through your mind.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

The friendships and love are mutual understanding, Once misunderstood, it is never got restore.

How devastating it is to be thought of as arrogant. Surely, we have known each other long enough and well enough, for her to understand that my silence only reflects my sense of trust and...

Love is a combination of understanding and misunderstanding. I’m understanding of your flaws, and I’m misunderstanding why you don’t try to be perfect, like I am.

The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense; it is not God.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding

If you don’t want anyone to misunderstand you, go into yourself and thoroughly investigate and understand yourself. No one will ever misunderstand you ever again.

There’s a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on the earth that the best way to live is to try to avoid pain and just try to get comfortable.

Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.

There are those that wonder which is worse: Not being able to reach out or not having anyone to reach for. There are some that ponder which is the greater ache: Not being able to...