Quotes with misunderstanding

  • Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.
  • Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.
  • Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

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  • Bob Dylan A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Philip Roth Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Charles Baudelaire It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • André Gide Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Burning Spear Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • John Ruskin No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Cass Sunstein Research shows that if people are talking and listening to like-minded others, they become more dogmatic, more unified, and more extreme. Personalized Facebook experiences are a breeding ground for misunderstanding and miscommunication across political lines and, ultimately, for extremism.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Martin Luther King Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Oscar Wilde The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The word ''Christianity'' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Louis Kronenberger There seems to be a great 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
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Billy Dee Williams There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with little children who would accuse me of betraying Han Solo.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Anatole Broyard To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Dick Cavett To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
    Dick Cavett
    American television personality and comedian (1936 - )
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  • Ben Stiller We covered Hey Jude. My father panicked, misunderstanding the lyrics and thinking our lead singer was belting out Hey, Jew to a roomful of Holocaust survivors.
    As quoted in The Best Book of Useless Information Ever
    Ben Stiller
    American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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  • Burning Spear We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Jean Rostand When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Lionel Trilling Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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