Misunderstanding Quotes - Page 9

• When you understand dharma, when you see its perfect perfection, shining both in and beyond all things, you will be freed from all misunderstandings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Shining

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• Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing the church

  Scot McKnight

  Church, Culture, Problem

  Scot McKnight (2016). “The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited”, p.16, Zondervan

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• Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

  David Mixner

  Pain, Two, Democracy

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• Oftentimes, misunderstandings and antagonism surfaces most strongly when economic times are tough. And that's not surprising. If everybody is working and feeling good and making money and buying a new house and a big screen TV, you're less worried about what other folks are doing.

  Barack Obama

  House, Feel Good, Feelings

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

  Ron Fournier

  America, Guilty, Misgivings

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• I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings - and the Web's a form of communications - so it generally should be good.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Communication, Thinking, Way

  Interview with Scott Laningham, www.ibm.com. August 22, 2006.

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• If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort, since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Running, Pride, Men

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Past, Conventions

  1969 'Sentences on Conceptual Art', in Art-Language, vol.1, no.1, May.

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• Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Comfort, Aging, Effects

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.55, Random House

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• There should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences. It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference, which pretends that human beings have no business with each other's conduct in life, and that they should not concern themselves about the well-doing or well-being of one another, unless their own interest is involved.

  John Stuart Mill

  Selfish, Doctrine, Would Be

  "Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin".

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• If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.

  Hans Kung

  Jesus, Father, Fighting

  Newsweek interview, July 08, 1991.

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• Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies either a universal loathing or a universal veneration (which are much the same thing).

  Philippe Sollers

  Sex, Clumsiness, Realization

  Philippe Sollers (1994). “Watteau in Venice: A Novel”, Scribner

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• I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

  Enoch Powell

  Years, Russia, Challenges

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• A dog — a dog teaches us so much about love. Wordless, imperfect love; love that is constant, love that is simple goodness, love that forgives not only bad singing and embarrassments, but misunderstandings and harsh words. Love that sits and stays and stays and stays, until it finally becomes its own forever. Love, stronger than death. A dog is a four-legged reminder that love comes and time passes and then your heart breaks.

  Deb Caletti

  Dog, Heart, Simple

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• [Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind.

  William Lawrence Bragg

  Writing, Science, Order

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• I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Believe, Eugenics

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• There is a common misunderstanding that during meditation the mind should never engage in processing thoughts. It is okay in meditation for the mind to move into many different directions, while at the same time attempting to return to a centered, relaxed state of mind.

  Tim McCarthy

  Moving, Meditation, Mind

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• The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.

  Erich Fromm

  Lying, Passion, Confusion

  "Human Nature and Social Theory". Letter by Erich Fromm to Vladimir Dobrenkov, March 10, 1969.

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• In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

  Renata Adler

  Profound, World, Bears

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• I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than the center of His will? Did not He assure me by His very presence that His thoughts toward us are good, and not evil? Death to my own plans and desires was almost deliriously delightful. Everything was laid at His nail-scarred feet, life or death, health or illness, appreciation by others or misunderstanding, success or failure as measured by human standards. Only He himself mattered.

  V. Raymond Edman

  Appreciation, Feet, Evil

  "They Found the Secret: Twenty Transformed Lives that Reveal a Touch of Eternity".

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• Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God's true nature. God's heart is more gentle than the Virgin's first kiss upon the Christ. And God's forgiveness to all, to any thought or act, is more certain than our own being.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Heart, Kissing, Suffering

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• At times, there are misunderstandings [during shooting]. Especially with green screen and not really knowing what it is that you're looking at, you really depend on the director to create that world for you.

  Danny Huston

  Knowing, Directors, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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• It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mistake, Moving, Forgiving

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• We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence - and even start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

  Suzy Kassem

  War, Ideas, Doors

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

  Sara Bonnett Stein

  Flower, Garden, Thinking

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