Quotes about Misunderstanding
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
- George Bernard Shaw
Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.
- J. Oswald Sanders
Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.
- Dani Alves
Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
- Victor Hugo
My dear friend, I may be the victim of wrong perceptions, and what I write here may not reflect the truth. However, this is my experience of the situation. This is what I really feel in my heart. If there is anything wrong in what I write, let us sit down and look into it together
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
- JRR Tolkien
People have labeled the Process as whatever, tanking. I don't see it like that.
- Joel Embiid
There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
have had to come to grips with the fact that people have lied and will lie about me; they will rip a few sentences out of context, twist a few passages, and make me sound like I believe something I don't because they need something to be angry about and oppose.
- Gary Thomas
No, Stubb; you may pound that knot there as much as you please, but you will never pound into me what you were just now saying.
- Herman Melville
Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.
- Miroslav Volf
When watching 'The Passion,' Jews and Christians are watching two entirely different films. For two hours, Christians watch their Savior tortured and killed. For the same two hours, Jews watch Jews arrange the killing and torture of the Christians' Savior.
- Dennis Prager