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Misunderstanding |
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Quotations
 | I'm so misunderstood, that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 7 likes |
 | Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 7 likes |
 | He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 6 likes |
 | The very word “Christianity” is a misunderstanding — in truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us. — Quintilian, 35-96 AD, Roman rhetorician 5 likes |
 | The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 4 likes |
 | If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 4 likes |
 | We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding. — Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, English writer, Nobel 1907 4 likes |
 | Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer 4 likes |
 | It is not at all simple to understand the simple. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | In group efforts there is a reckless tendency for consensus and collective misunderstanding of serious issues, within a climate of cheerful camaraderie. — Gustave Le Bon, 1841-1931, French polymath & writer 3 likes |
 | Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. — Alan Greenspan, 1926-, American economist 3 likes |
 | Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 1 likes |
 | There is only one legitimate way, which is work, to make money, and since a lot of people don't want to use it, a lot of misunderstanding results. — Alexandre Dumas, fils, 1824-1895, French writer 1 likes |
 | No life in the whole history of man has been so misinterpreted, so woefully misunderstood as Christ's. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 1 likes |
 | Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? — Philip Roth, 1933-2018, American writer 1 likes |
 | Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 1 likes |
| I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 1 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | They misunderestimated me. — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 8 likes |
 | Beethoven was so deaf that all his life he believed he was painting. — François Cavanna, 1923-2014, French humorist 4 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | I talk to you about garlics and you respond about onions. Εγώ σκόροδα σοι λὲγω, συ δε κρόμμυα αποκρίνει. — Αρχαία παροιμιακή φράση 10 likes |
