#misunderstand

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? ↗

— Philip Roth

#human #human being #intelligent #large-scale #likely

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts. ↗

— Criss Jami

#attraction #conversation #curiosity #fascination #females

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. ↗

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

#agreement #ask #assumptions #avoid #clearly

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. ↗

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

#fatal #human #human affairs #little #misunderstanding

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#helpless #make #misunderstanding #oneself #others

They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another. ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#chaos #gossip #misunderstanding #gossip

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#grammar #humor #misunderstandings #problems #troubles

It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two different puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#misunderstanding #puzzles #quarrel #relationship #love

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

#brings #fosters #heat #litigation #misunderstandings

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? ↗

— Anthony Hope

#generally #misunderstand #people #promoting #telling