Quotes about Misunderstanding
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
— Oscar Wilde
No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.
— Joe Biden
Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
— Charles Colson
When someone has an opinion, even if it ends up misquoted, people jump on it.
— James Milner
she was the dumbest bitch on the planet.
— Toni Morrison
Once they knew she had been working for a doctor, the eye rolling and tooth sucking was enough to make clear their scorn. And nothing Cee remembered—how pleasant she felt upon awakening after Dr. Beau had stuck her with a needle to put her to sleep; how passionate he was about the value of the examinations; how she believed the blood and pain that followed was a menstrual problem—nothing made them change their minds about the medical industry.
— Toni Morrison
What are you? Some kinda mermaid?" one man had shouted, and reached hurriedly for his socks.
— Toni Morrison
By misunderstanding the nature and purpose of God's kingdom, we have marginalized the church's authority and influence both within its walls and outside them.
— Tony Evans
North Americans think they know how to speak Christian, but what they say is actually a gross distortion. Either people do not know Christian words at all, or they have heard them but do not know what they mean, or they think they know what they mean when in fact they mean something completely different.
— Kevin Vanhoozer
To the superficial observer, it will appear like madness.
— Carl Jung
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
— George Bernard Shaw
Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.
— J. Oswald Sanders