I’m a lion in a strange land.

When the conflict deepens, none will have peace either.

Well, it’s really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us…and nothing.

Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

You’ll like it less when you hear what they’ve been building. It’s a big raised platform at the end of the square about two metres above the ground, with steps running up to it.”Like a...

She says: …love is really all that matters. He hears: …really love to do it on the mattress.

Forgiveness is a clean lotion that heals the wounds of misunderstandings! To iron out the differences; get the painful sores dressed up; Forgive and Forget!

All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men die in silence and unnoticed behind the walls. Now and then a man, cut off from his fellows...

We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions.

…’fundamentalism’ and ‘liberalism’ and terrorism.’ These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware of the limitations of our own vision and of our own capacity for...

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.

When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.

They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.

Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?

Elgin himself looked ten years younger, now that he’d cast the die, but I thought exuberance had got the better of him when he strode into the saloon later, threw The Origin of Species on...

hypothesis” means ‘guess,’ people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.

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.