Quotes about Misinterpretation

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates his duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Do you think horses understand what people say? I aint sure most people do.

You think sometimes I dont listen. I think you listen. I'm not so sure what you hear.

He thought he saw a BuffaloUpon the chimneypiece:He looked again, and found it wasHis sister's husband's niece.

My husband wasn't listening when the doctor asked for "a urine, stool, and semen sample" . . . so I just told him they wanted his shorts.

she was the dumbest bitch on the planet.

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.

A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.

Now, perhaps, we are in a better position to understand the abyss separating Sabina and Franz: he listened eagerly to the story of her life and she was equally eager to hear the story of his, but although they had a clear understanding of the logical meaning of the words they exchanged, they failed to hear the semantic susurrus of the river flowing through them.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.

When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.