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“correct understanding of a matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter are not mutually exclusive.” Franz Kafka, The Trial
“And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“To be great is to be misunderstood.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“In short, the way to avoid misunderstanding is for everybody to lie and slander and insinuate and pretend as hard as they can. That is what obeying your mother comes to.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“We are often unable to tell people what they NEED to know, because they WANT to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“I know you. In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand one another.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood...” Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
“There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“Baby . . . I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.” Charles Bukowski, Factotum
“LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“There's no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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