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Misunderstanding Quotes

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

Elias Canetti (1982). “Auto Da Fé”, New York : Continuum

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.83, Vintage

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

A mutual misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1998). “Complete Shorter Fiction”, p.265, Oxford University Press, USA

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

"Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.

Jean M. Auel (2013). “The Earth's Children Series 6-Book Bundle: The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone, The Land of Painted Caves”, p.2048, Bantam

I've got nothing to hide and other misunderstandings of privacy

Daniel J. Solove (2011). “Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security”, p.8, Yale University Press