Misunderstanding Quotes

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.

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

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

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.

There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

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.

The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

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

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

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

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

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.

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