Misunderstanding Quotes

One of the most common causes of people fighting ceaselessly is misunderstanding. It tends to create so many problems between couples, friends and families. It is this very misunderstanding that can irreparably damage a relation. Here are a few quotes that will help you understand what it's like to be misunderstood and perhaps, how to do away with misunderstandings.

Misunderstanding Sayings

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. - Henry David Thoreau

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

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

The world only goes round by misunderstanding. - Charles Baudelaire

I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the simple reason that there is no desire to be understood. It is their problem if they don't understand, it is not my problem. If they misunderstand, it is their problem and their misery. I am not going to waste my sleep because millions of people are misunderstanding me. - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. - Albert Schweitzer

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money! - Bill Hicks

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. - Martin Luther Kings Jr.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. - Charles Baudelaire

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding - Oscar Wilde

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. - Diane Arbus

They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding... - Honore de Balzac

We covered 'Hey, Jude.' My father panicked, misunderstanding the lyrics and thinking our lead singer was belting out 'Hey, Jew' to a roomful of Holocaust survivors. - Ben Stiller

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 misunderstanding. - Barry Long

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. - Bob Dylan

Whatever she is trying to say there, she didn't say it well, ... is worrisome because it might be a basic misunderstanding about the Voting Rights Act. - Mary Cheh

Like all Shakespearean comedy, Much Ado deals with love and marriage. But it's also about misunderstanding, misinterpretation and disguise. The entire play is about the ways we mask our identity and hide our true feelings, literally and figuratively. - Henry I. Schvey

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. - Sri Sathya Sai Baba

What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized. - Walter Washington

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work. - Kevin Kelly

Hopefully, these misunderstanding quotes helped you realize what it's like to be misunderstood. However, being misunderstood is something that happens to all of us but what sets a successful person apart, is having the courage to confront these misunderstandings.