Quotes about Misinterpretation
Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?
- Edith Wharton
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. -Is it so bad, then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood...
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is why Jesus challenged the notion that more evidence would have generated more faith. George Macdonald said years ago that to give truth to him who does not love the truth is to only give more reasons for misinterpretation.
- Ravi Zacharias
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
- Samuel Johnson
Men can make an idol of the Bible.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
- William Howard Taft
The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.
- Leonard Ravenhill