Quotes by misunderstanding

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  Bob Dylan
  American musician 1941-

  

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  A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
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  Philip Roth
  American Novelist 1933-

  

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  Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
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  Charles Baudelaire
  French poet 1821-1867

  

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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.
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  André Gide
  French writer 1869-1951

  

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  Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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  Burning Spear
  Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician 1945-

  

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  Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.
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  John Ruskin
  English art critic 1819-1900

  

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  No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
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  Cass Sunstein
  American legal scholar 1954-

  

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  Research shows that if people are talking and listening to like-minded others, they become more dogmatic, more unified, and more extreme. Personalized Facebook experiences are a breeding ground for misunderstanding and miscommunication across political lines and, ultimately, for extremism.
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  Martin Luther King
  American preacher 1929-1968

  

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  Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.
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  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer 1854-1900

  

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  The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
  Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
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  Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher 1844-1900

  

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  The word ''Christianity'' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
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  Charles Baudelaire
  French poet 1821-1867

  

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  The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
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  Louis Kronenberger
  American literary critic and novelist 1904-1980

  

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  There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
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  Billy Dee Williams
  American actor, voice actor, and artist 1937-

  

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  There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with little children who would accuse me of betraying Han Solo.
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  Anatole Broyard
  American writer, literary critic, and editor

  

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  To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
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  Dick Cavett
  American television personality and comedian 1936-

  

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  To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.