Misunderstanding Quotes - Page 6

• We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstandin.

  Barry Long

  Views, Looks, Facts

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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• There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Two, Understanding, Faults

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.283, Princeton University Press

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• Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Kindness, Relax, Prejudice

  Albert Schweitzer (1960). “My Childhood and Youth”

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• Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.

  Thomas Sowell

  Financial, Economics, Method

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.79, Basic Books

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• There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding is what we call [heretical naturalness] ... a kind of "let-alone policy" or sloppiness... For a plant or stone to be natural is no problem. But for us there is some problem, indeed a big problem. To be natural is something we must work on.

  Laozi

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.

  Adam Gopnik

  Distance, Believe, Simple

  Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

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• There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.

  Faith Sullivan

  Differences, Comfort, Teeth

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• Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

  Oleg Deripaska

  Believe, Russia, Long

  "How metals and a ruthless streak put Russian patriot at top of the rich list". Interview With Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2007.

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• I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Europe, French Culture

  Ecce Homo "Why I Am So Clever" (1888) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• 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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• It is impossible - now, at this point in the long journey of human culture - to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautiful...

  Howard Barker

  Beautiful, Pain, Character

  Howard Barker (2004). “Death, The One and the Art of Theatre”, p.105, Routledge

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• Let us live and move in harmony. Let us grow together. Let us cherish the wisdom that we have acquired together. Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Moving, Together, Cherish

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• If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Women, History, Abuse

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.189, Gospel Light Publications

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• There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

  Emma Thompson

  Lying, Knowledge, Mean

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Art, Sound, Paper

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• Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Real, People, Our Actions

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• Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Scylla, Navigation, Mathematics

  Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz (2009). “Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy”, p.155, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Whenever I give a talk about my work I am invariably asked who my influences are.  Not what my influences are, but who.. As if the gutter, misunderstandings, memories, sex, dreams, and books matter less than forebears do.  After all, in terms of influences, it is as much the guy who mugged me on Tenth Street, or my beloved dog who passed away much too early, as it was Giotto or Diane Arbus.

  Robert Gober

  Dream, Dog, Sex

  Charles Ephraim Burchfield, Robert Gober, Cynthia Burlingham, Dave Hickey, Tullis Johnson (2009). “Heat waves in a swamp: the paintings of Charles Burchfield”, Prestel Pub

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• Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Names, Fame, Miscellaneous

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• Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Fall, Fate

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• More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived.

  Peter Dicken

  Alliances, Venture, Different

  "Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy". Book by Peter Dicken, 1986.

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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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• Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many of our misunderstandings spring from an imperfect knowledge on the part of both of us of the dissimilarities in our forms of government.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spring, Government, Presidential

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958".

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• The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Adversity, Artist, Atmosphere

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• At the same time I think it is absolutely necessary that there be no confusion, no misunderstanding that if the Iraqis.. do not comply, then there will be consequences and those consequences will involve the use of military force to disarm them through changing the regime.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Thinking, Confusion

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