Misunderstanding Quotes

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused.

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.

I'm a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way.

When I left home, my mum said "Don't forget to write", I thought, "That's unlikely"... It's a basic skill isn't it.

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

You know, most people really don't know me.

To be great, you must be misunderstood

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.

Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.

I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.

The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.

As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

Now the whole worlds calling me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer.

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset. "Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any.

In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.

I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

I really didn't say everything I said.

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone's had enough of me to last a month.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

A mutual misunderstanding.

Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it's hard to carry on when, No one loves you.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

I went to a cigar store, the man behind the counter asked me, "What kind of cigars do you like?" I answered, "It's a Boys."

I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.