Misunderstanding

Misunderstanding:

- Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception.

- Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel.


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Quotes:

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
Charles Baudelaire

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

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Andre Gide

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
Johann G. Hamann

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Zora Neale Hurston

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
Kevin Kelly

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
Philip Roth

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau

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

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