Top Misunderstanding Quotes
The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
Jean Rostand
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.
Giorgio Moroder
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
Johann G. Hamann
Henry David Thoreau 
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Kevin Kelly 
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Albert Schweitzer All Misunderstanding Quotes
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
Margaret E. Sangster 
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In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.
Kurt Masur
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There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
Louis Kronenberger
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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
Philip Roth
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire
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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Lionel Trilling
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Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.
Peter DeFazio
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
Pamela Anderson
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Henry David ThoreauFriedrich NietzscheAmbrose BierceMartin Luther King, Jr.Charles BaudelaireAlbert SchweitzerJean RostandBob DylanAndre GideRobert WyattZora Neale HurstonKevin KellySamuel AlexanderKurt MasurJohn Yoo
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