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.