Misunderstanding Quotes

Most popular misunderstanding quotes

To be great is to be misunderstood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
To be great is to be misunderstood.

greatness

When however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is going to be trouble. - John Irving quote.
When however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is going to be trouble.

understanding jealousy

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. - Jean Cocteau quote.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

poets

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. - André Gide quote.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
André Gide The Journals of André Gide: 1914¬–1927

quarrels

No one would talk much in society if he knew how often he misunderstands others. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote.
No one would talk much in society if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding. - Rudyard Kipling quote.
We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? - Philip Roth quote.
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

understanding

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. - Lionel Trilling quote.
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.